Israelis using gardening tools to fight wildfires sparked by Hezbollah rockets
Dean Sweetland is one of a dozen residents tackling recent bushfires around Kibbutz Malkiya/ Three rusty water-trucks stand at the edge of Kibbutz Malkiya, on Israel’s border with Lebanon; little bigger than a family car, they look like something out of an old cartoon. A collection of industrial leaf-blowers is stacked nearby. “This is all we have,” resident Dean Sweetland explains. “We have just these - and the leaf-blowers - to blow the fire back onto the dead areas.” Dean, a Londoner who moved to the kibbutz eight years ago, is one of a ...
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