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Oliver Fry of Surrey Wildlife Trust says conditions are incredibly dry on the heathlands of Surrey, which creates "tinderbox conditions".

An early masterpiece, “Blood Knot” established a paradigm for Fugard, whose plays are distinguished by their small casts, static locations and tinderbox emotions.

After months of drought, Southern California was a tinderbox, one spark away from going up in flames.

The morning after the Eaton fire erupted, Erlich said, the inside of the Pasadena courthouse smelled like a “tinderbox” and was unsafe to work in.

When this weather pattern settles in, it’s not just a lack of precipitation that’s aggravating the drought: The atmosphere itself pulls water from soil, from vegetation, from everything, turning California’s landscape into a tinderbox.