Wow. Yeah, it didn’t just destroy property but caused a lot of chaos. And it’s still going!
I watched Live Fox News 31 which showed live motion pictures of the grass fires. Any one with a garden hose with a power nozzle could have put out the grass fire. Everyone was ordered to evacuate. There were zero humans to put the grass fires out. And then the grass fires reached the houses and the houses were slowly burned to nothingness. A massive amount of destruction could have been avoided if the homeowners had been allowed to use garden hoses to spray the small flames. In other cases it was trees blown over by high winds and the fallen trees snapped off power lines which sparked the fires. Trees should not be allowed to hang around with power lines. The 6 month drought caused massive areas to be ultra dry…yet zero attempts were made to bulldoze fire breaks into the open area grass lands. And then the winds came. A recipe for disaster.