Week Six Text Blog Entry - a narrative or recount

Today I readed a article what a farmer should pay $200,000 for extinguishing a massive fire near Bulls. Here is a link to this article. Mr Dulieu, who is Rangitikei District Council principal rural fire officer, said the fire was an accident. Why this incident happened because Gavin Hastings was mowing grass and the blade was heated up. As a result, the blade set the grass on fire. It took eight hours to control the February 26 blaze, which used more than 100 firefighters and six helicopters. This fire was the biggest in the Rangitikei region in recent times. I chose this article because I was surprised about this number.

Most of the verb forms which explain what happened are in the past simple form. There is one example of the past perfect continuous, which is " he had been mowing grass in a paddock owned by his brother when the mower blade hit a rock and he saw a fire." It means mowin grass happened before the fire in the past.