The fire hit haifa itself . From what I can gather it was mostly caused by several acts of arson from within haifa . Haifa is located on a mountain and there are a lot of open areas with vegetation growing in them in the middle of the city , meaning that even in high residential areas there are lot of trees . Here is an image of the effected naighborhoods and here is google map cented on the location , 34 . 9916684 , 2146 mdata ! 3 m 1 ! 1 e 3 ? hlen . You will notice that there is a lot of greenery there but also many houses . <| sep |> I know , it ' s HILLarious . <| sep |> hahaha great way to phrase it . It ' s like Why , we ' ve been studying the sun in this laboratory since the soviets and all we ' ve figured out is it ' s probably roundish .