I think Q is pointing out that CA deliberately does not perform fire prevention activities and thus has culpability in these fires.
>>I think Q is pointing out that CA deliberately does not perform fire prevention activities and thus has culpability in these fires.
That makes sense.
Cali has in the last 27 years done any fire prevention and have prohibited the same. A guy vcty of March AFB was fined for discing his land in the face of a fire. I watch the genesis of the Laguna Beach fire in 1993. We were on standby fire suppression, called the POC, was denied activity by air. Further denied using fire trucks from MCAS El Toro. Saw the fire start watched it go over the hill causing $528 mil in damage in 1993.
Fire is huge business in Cali.
Interestingly I went to do some statistical analysis of # of fires and acreage burned to see how this year and last year stacked up compared to prior....suprise surprise they stopped posting data after 2016 to this site:
http://www.fire.ca.gov/fire_protection/fire_protection_fire_info_redbooks
I was able to pull # of fires from Wikipedia for 2017 and it does indicate the # is at the very top end of the range with 9133 in 2017 vs an average of 8145 since the year 2000. There are 5 years over 9000 and 2017 is in the top 3.
Average acres burned for large fires blew through the roof in the past 2 years with 404626 acres in 2017 and a whopping 875654 acres so far this year vs an average of 203879 from 2000-2016. The only year that comes even close is 2007 with 566688 acres. What’s also really odd is the average acres took a step function increase in 2017 compared to 4 prior years where the average was 75992 acres for large fires.
I could easily see that with the dems taking congress in 2006 they decided to let things burn more to cover for sending more money cali way.