A fire fighting plane sprays fire extinguishing material on a wildfire in the Carmel Mountains in northern Israel

A fire fighting plane sprays fire extinguishing material over a wildfire in the Carmel Mountains, December 5, 2010, on the outskirts of Haifa in northern Israel. More than 17,000 residents have been evacuated and 42 killed in the worse forest fire in the history of Israel. UPI/Debbie Hill