Let me tell you, lots of us around here have come down with some sort of “crud” after breathing all this smoke here in Butte County. So, am I reading this right...our esteemed Gov is saying that forest management caused the fires? This is the same Gov that said after the almost dam collapse “Stuff happens...” A true maroon. He’s gone to be replaced with another whack-a-mole maroon.
I had chest pains for two weeks on top of hacking up junk. Government ain’t telling what was in that smoke.
A friend from Malibu spent two days “on the beach” with evacuees helping others. Breathing all that smoke. He now is having serious respiratory trouble. I am sure he is not alone.
You can thank your "air quality" management board. They are the ones who don't allow presriptive burning, even on federal land, because someone might breathe a little smoke from that. That was the cause of the catastrophic fire. Specifically Butte county AQ only allows 6000 acres out of one million acres to burned at any one time (natural or manmade) during the short safe burn season.
Ironically they are correct. The fires needed for proper management would have caused smoke for two months at least back in May and June burning somewhat wet fuels. Instead they allowed the fuel to fully dry out, causing a fire with less smoke. The tradeoff for them was 100 people burned alive.. They probably figure that was a small price to pay.