California stopped maintaining their firebreaks, ostensibly because they interfered with the migration of an endangered mouse.
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LOOK AT THE GOOD SIDE OF IT! The Smelt fish are doing well now the reservoirs and dams once used for fire suppression, have been destroyed and drained. and the brush was for nesting birds and ground animals so the Greenies could go out and commune with Mother Nature!
Now Mother Nature has bit them in the butt big time. Remember the old advertisement on TV..”IT’S NOT NICE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE!”