I don’t know much about the area but if you know what is going to happen, why not try some preemptive action?
Too dry and dangerous even without the Santa Anna to try controlled burns. They only do it when they are desperate. This fire is in a dense moutainous Area.
You know this is in Kalifornia, right? Enviro-whackos would never allow such a thing!...............
I don’t know much about the area but if you know what is going to happen, why not try some preemptive action?
Good questions, but I wonder if the greens and such have tied the state up environmentally to where things like this aren't an option.
I used to live in area. Fire rules are extremely enforced.
Good question, I'll answer that.
California has more acreage of steep, super rugged geography than many states have land. Many of these areas are totally inaccessible for most equipment, even for those on foot, add in very strong winds, with embers that can travel at 60 plus miles per hour, for *miles* into neighborhoods and other areas, that are far from the fires...
It would be impossible to send in several hundred thousand people every summer to be airlifted into hundreds of square miles, into all these super rugged steep areas to cut the brush. It's not only impractical, they'd never get to all of it.
” “Why don’t they have controlled burns before the Santa Ana winds whip up?
I don’t know much about the area but if you know what is going to happen, why not try some preemptive action?” “
You’re talking about an area the size of Georgia or bigger. Where would we start? We don’t know where the fires will be. All of So California is brush.