Our View: Was cause of Larnaca fire human stupidity?

At the start of every summer a lot of reassuring words are spoken about Cyprus’ preparedness for fire season. More staff, more equipment, more technology and more millions are poured into resources, exercises and public awareness campaigns.

Thankfully, so far this year temperatures have not been totally insufferable for July and the fires up until Monday have been well contained, but there are still many weeks before the danger subsides....