Every Nicaraguan summer, the rainfall diminishes and all that used to be green, turns brown. In the Mosquitia, the grasses are so dry, and the sun so intense, that people believe that the heat off the rocks is enough to start wildfires. Others recognize that when someone carelessly throws a lit cigarette, or often when small fires are lit to burn trash, just the slightest breeze can create a blaze that can burn out of control over hundreds of acres at a time…
