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The need for such care is urgent: countless children continue to drown in this riverine region, which is dotted with ponds and rivers.

Other fires dotted the L.A. map throughout the week, spurring evacuations and fear for West Hollywood and the West Valley.

There are still more than 300,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance from the First and Second World Wars dotted around UK waters, which must be cleared for wind projects to go ahead.

But residents say the last week has served as a brutal reminder of the stakes as they watched flames leap out of the foothills and leave their oak-tree dotted refuge looking like a moonscape.

Prior to the 11th Century, the Cholas had been one among the many squabbling powers that dotted the Kaveri floodplain, the great body of silt that flows through India's present-day state of Tamil Nadu.