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In May 2020, a video supposedly showing a line of fire burning across a field was widely shared on social media. On the Nature is Fucking Lit section of Reddit, this video was shared with the caption: Poplar fluff burning in Spain. The visuals in this video are unusual, to say the least, and left some viewers wondering if the attached caption was accurate. Is this a real video or a digital edit? Was this video really taken in Spain? What's poplar fluff? The earliest version of this video that we could find was posted to the Club De Montaña Calahorra Facebook page on the afternoon of May 6. This Facebook page posted two videos of the incident, one of which was accompanied by a simple caption warning viewers to cuidado con las pelusas or watch out for lint. The video was quickly picked up by Spanish news outlets, such as Cope, which reported that the video was filmed at a park (Parque del Cidacos) in Calahorra, a municipality in La Rioja, Spain. The local news outlet La Rioja reported that a white cloak had covered Parque del Cidacos for the last few days, but that this fire suddenly turned everything green (translated via Google): The fluff in the above-displayed video is actually seeds from the poplar tree. The city of Calgary provided the following information about fluff on a web page dedicated to the problems with polar trees: In addition to creating literal headaches for those with allergies, this fluff is also flammable and can contribute to the spread of wildfires. In June 2019, the City of Winnipeg told CTV News that an unusually large amount of poplar fluff likely worsened a fire in Assiniboine Forest: It's not clear if the above-displayed fire was set intentionally as a controlled burn to clear the area, or if this fire was started on accident. According to Cope, this fire left no injuries or property damage.
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