Reuters: Island-state Singapore faced the largest number of bushfires in nearly a decade in January, thanks to an unusually long dry spell, the government’s anti-fire agency said Wednesday. The tropical nation saw 182 vegetation fires in January, mostly due to the dry spell, which the Singapore Civil Defense Force said was “unprecedented.” “The Jan figures of 182 bush fires responded is the most number of incidents attended to by the force in almost a decade,” Lieutenant Colonel N. Subhas said …