Self interest

Galicia, the Spanish north-west area is suffering more than a hundred fires right now. More than half of Spanish fire brigades are there trying to control the fires jointly with thousands of volunteers and Spanish army forces. Spanish goverment has asked for help to the European Union. Why is Galicia a real hell?

More than 90 percent of fires are caused by men. Why anyone would set a fire? Some of them are caused by people who throws cigarretes, prepares barbeques, or does other actions without being aware of the risk of doing it during the summer. But the vast majority of fires are set by people who wants to create a big fire. The reasons for this shows how selfish could the mankind be. I heard that some voluntaries who are paid for participating in the fire squads set the fires to have a paid job during the summer, others who are not hired set the fires as revenge, others set the fire to force the cityhall to change the land from forest-land to urban-area raising its price and others have reasons I could not even imagine.

What is happening make me feel sad because other people are loosing their houses and even their lives on the fires. I don't know personally anyone who set fires but I would like to ask them if they think of the consecuences when they set the fires or they only think of their self interest. I believe is just self interest!