Burning leaves can cause forest fires.

After storm No. 3, nearly 1 hectare of Acacia auriculiformis trees in Mrs. Ha's house were broken and lying haphazardly on the hill. Feeling sorry for the loss of money and effort, Mrs. Ha took advantage of a few sunny days to hire people to cut down trees and clean the garden. She sold the big trees to carpenters, and collected the small branches to bring home for firewood. As for the pile of dry Acacia leaves, she asked her son to take advantage of the weekend to collect them into bags and bring them home to burn. Thinking that his mother was too busy, Mrs. Ha's son Minh said:

- Why bother with firewood and dry leaves, Mom? Bringing them downstairs to burn creates smoke and dust, and is a waste of time. Let me burn them here for convenience. It saves the trouble of carrying them.

Seeing that her son did not understand her intention, Mrs. Ha explained:

- Burning here is convenient, but I have to be careful. Dry acacia branches burn slowly. If burned here, the embers will fly into the acacia garden next to Uncle Toan's house, which has not been cleared yet, and then spread to the ancient chestnut forest. "Far water cannot put out a nearby fire."

- Don't worry too much, Mom. The rangers are always on patrol. Besides, the chestnut forest is quite far from our house and can't burn - Minh said.

- Don't be subjective, son. It was just last year. Just because it was convenient and because I was afraid to clean up the garden after pruning the acacia branches, your father didn't collect the dry branches and leaves and bring them down to the house to deal with. The prolonged dry weather caused a part of the garden to burn.

Listening to her mother and husband talking, daughter-in-law Linh added:

- Mom is right, brother. The weather has been dry these days, burning trees and leaves here is very dangerous. There was just a forest fire in Kinh Mon.

- Then later, I will go with dad to tell uncle Toan and uncle Hung to clean the garden, mom - Minh understood and enthusiastically took care of the work.

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