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Vik's avatar

"Decades of mismanagement led to choked forests — now it's time to clear them out, fire experts say" -- from Oct. 18, 2020! The failure to do so made fires like this inevitable. Add that to the fire hydrant failures discussed by Roger.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/decades-mismanagement-led-choked-forests-now-it-s-time-clear-n1243599

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Hugh Brennan's avatar

The desert comes up to the mountains. The ridgelines hem development into the magical coastal strip. None of it has abundant rainfall. The famous sunshine means it's dry. The scrub that blankets the hills and fills every canyon is adapted to the dry environment. Many plants propagate through fire. The plant is consumed, but the seeds remain. There is sap in the scrub plants that is like "gasoline" in its inflammability. Add to the dryness, the combustible plants, a predictable recurrence of extremely high winds and you have a perfect formula for sudden fire outbreaks in difficult terrain. None of this would matter too much, but millions of people live there. Many of the most valuable properties are in the most vulnerable areas. That moronic left politics couldn't manage to keep the water buckets filled in the fire zone is sadly unsurprising.

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