http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=587190&CategoryId=14089
Little media attention has been paid to Ecuador's blazing forest fires...until people started to die.
5 have died...and 73 injured since June.
The fires have consumed 17,600 hectares/ 43,500 acres.
Most of the fires have been in Quito's Pichincha province.
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