Mount Carmel contains large areas of forests , including large numbers of Aleppo pine trees , which are more easily ignited . Over the years , many fires have occurred on Mount Carmel , among them many which devastated hundreds of thousands of acres of forest . One such as that was the Mount Carmel forest fire of 1989 which destroyed about of forest
Mount Carmel forest fire of 1989
Mount Carmel forest fire (1989)
Mount Carmel forest fire (2010)