1. The chief fire officer said that he didn't think that the forest fire could spread to the nearby houses.
2. He said that the not dry weather had caused the fire.
3. He also said that people needed to be careful about
lighting fires during the summer months.
4. Local residents said that children had cried because the fire was close to the town.
5. They also said that everyone had been upset about the environmental damage to the countryside.
6. A climate change scientist said the problem of forest fires will could get much worse in the future.
7. She said that the government promised to try to solve the problem of global warming but she thought that they was trying very hard at the moment.
8. The minister for the environment said the government did everything it could at the moment to stop global warming.
