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Af­ter a rel­a­tive­ly wet start to the lo­cal dry sea­son, rain­fall has be­come scarce, veg­e­ta­tion is dry­ing rapid­ly and bush­fires are be­ing re­port­ed dai­ly to the T&T Fire Ser­vice (TTFS).

The bush­fire sea­son, which ex­tends from De­cem­ber 1 to June 30, has nu­mer­ous fires which have had a ma­jor im­pact on the coun­try’s telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices.

A bush­fire is clas­si­fied as a type of wild­fire that oc­curs in nat­ur­al veg­e­ta­tion such as forests, grass­lands and shrub­lands, ac­cord­ing to the Na­tion­al Fire Pre­ven­tion As­so­ci­a­tion (NF­PA).