They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?
ProPublica,
by
Elizabeth Weil
Original Article
Posted By: humboldt,
9/1/2020 12:32:28 PM
What a week. Rough for all Californians. Exhausting for the firefighters on the front lines. Heart-shattering for those who lost homes and loved ones. But a special “Truman Show” kind of hell for the cadre of men and women who’ve not just watched California burn, fire ax in hand, for the past two or three or five decades, but who’ve also fully understood the fire policy that created the landscape that is now up in flames.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 9/1/2020 12:53:32 PM (No. 528014)
"Why won't anybody listen?"
When you combine stupidity with a lust for power and money (and make no mistake, those are ALWAYS connected somehow), innocent people suffer!
P.S. Please explain to me one more time how exactly out-of-control wildfires "save" the habitats of endangered species while controlled burns and brush removal destroy it? Seems to me that either way, the habitat goes POOF!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/1/2020 12:55:49 PM (No. 528016)
ProPublica is a flaming Liberal site. Let them talk to Newsom and the flaming Liberals running California. The rest of us are in the minority and have no voice.
BTW, those who read this long rant will find at the end a commercial - attributed to unnamed firefighters - for the human caused climate change.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/1/2020 12:58:37 PM (No. 528021)
Should have said “the human-caused climate change hoax.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
marbles 9/1/2020 1:01:45 PM (No. 528026)
Where I live we have controlled burns. The bush and dead wood are cleared, out this way it promotes new healthy growth. It's done in sections and never gets out of control.The forest does not burn down. Wild fires a fueled by the dead wood and brush and consume more than forests, they take out houses.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2020 1:55:02 PM (No. 528079)
It's California and the leftist ecoloons have all the answers, all the power.
They will eventually learn, but it takes a lot to convince an ecoloon of anything, because they are religious zealots, they KNOW that they are right on everything, even when they are wrong on everything.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/1/2020 3:08:54 PM (No. 528140)
Wouldn't want to hurt a chipmunk or owl by clearing away dead stuff. Never mind that the creatures would run/fly away if they are careful while clearing away the dead stuff. They can protect property and nature at the same time. Unfortunately, to environmentalists it is one or the other and people and property always lose.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chillijilli 9/1/2020 3:18:13 PM (No. 528144)
Here's the problem with prescribed burns. The government decides on a date and a time and guess what? If on that day there are 30mph wind gusts or a lost family of hikers in the area, there is no way to stop what the government has set into motion. It's hopeless and it's mindless. Imagine the paperwork involved trying to stop something at the last minute, just for starters.
I recently lived through a 200,000 acre wildfire that could've been extinguished when it was only 200 acres. But, no. We don't extinguish fires anymore, nowadays we "contain" them. So a fire which could've lasted 2 hours lasted 30 days. Fames were leaping just 1 ½ blocks from my home. Literally, the FEMA map showed the evacuation line going right through the middle of my house! I called about 5 different agencies to find out if I was supposed to evacuate or not. FEMA was NOT "in charge" of the map; I was supposed to contact "the map" people, but no one knew who they were. Good luck finding "map people" in a list of government agencies. Finally, I was transferred to my County Emergency Services. They advised that I should "follow the map" so I asked if that meant I would be safe if I just went from my office to my dining room. And the guy honestly said, "Yes. That's what the map tells you to do." People really think (?) like that. I give up.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/1/2020 3:42:13 PM (No. 528162)
Well we need to have the politicians go get 5 gallons of gasoline, then light a match as they look to see how full the tank is...that will solve LOTS of problems!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
worried 9/1/2020 3:54:06 PM (No. 528168)
#6, I wouldn't call them environmentalists. Most of them only know about nature what they have seen on Disney.
#7, if a controlled burn is done right there should be no problem. But no way can one control a burn with 30 or more mile per hour winds. That is sheer stupidity. And refusing to extinguish a fire under those conditions is really criminal, and usually a result of listening to those aforementioned environmentalists.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jjs 9/1/2020 5:36:32 PM (No. 528243)
"It’s just that other social political realities get in the way of doing a lot of what we need to do.”
At the end of the article the truth is finally told. Long article all for nothing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2020 5:43:24 PM (No. 528248)
And climate change has NOTHING to do with it at all.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
or gate 9/1/2020 7:08:05 PM (No. 528347)
The amount of dead trees and brush on the floor of the forest cause the fire to crown.
Crown means that the fire is so hot it goes up healthy trees and goes from tree to tree.
The wackos think the duff under the trees is good and it will help global warming.
The Indians used to burn the forests just before the snow flies. The fire would go up a few inches and clean the area..
Too late now politicians. Now the fires go up to about thirty feet tall and crown.
Call me when California is all desert. (some said burn Cali to the ground and it's so easy)
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But this can't be happening in California as it is ruled by progressives who have an absolute faith in following science in promulgating policies.