[Southack]

For perspective, we had these large wildfires every year in Alabama (a woodland state) until the late 1940’s and early 1950’s when we instituted scientific forestry management.

Now we’ve got logging roads strategically placed to serve as fire breaks in ways that limit most of our fires to a mere 100 acres.

This is why you no longer hear about great forest fires in Alabama.

Such large fires *can* be stopped with proper land management from mature adults.

[kcvl]

Such large fires *can* be stopped with proper land management from mature adults.

Exactly!

Prayers for the people who are in the area.

[steve86]

Now we’ve got logging roads strategically placed to serve as fire breaks in ways that limit most of our fires to a mere 100 acres.

As though roads can be cut over many of these western mountain ranges.

[mad_as_he$$]

I do not think you understand Santa Ana winds. Anything over 45 mph forget it. SA winds routinely reach 50+mph and come from the high desert. The humidity can drop to 3% in hours and the winds go all afternoon well into the evening. A fire with that kind of wind would blow by your firebreaks before the trucks could get a hose out.

[TankerKC]

Such large fires *can* be stopped with proper land management from mature adults.

Do you bring them in from New York?

[SE Mom]

Does Alabama have the Santa Ana winds?

[dragnet2]

Such large fires *can* be stopped with proper land management from mature adults.

California has more acreage of steep, super rugged geography than the entire state of Alabama. 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 for *miles* into neighborhoods and other areas...

So your "mature adult" comment is quite juvenile and ignorant.

Or are you suggesting sending 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?

[a real Sheila]

The tree huggers won’t even allow the plowing or controlled burning of underbrush. Unfortunately, CA is now reaping the rewards of letting those idiots prohibit the things that need to be done to save both property and wildlife.
I read after the most recent rash of bad fires there, folks were renting herds of goats to clear brush on their land.
Those folks will probably come out ok.
Lessons learned.

[dufekin]

That sort of scientific forestry management may have been possible in the 1940s and 1950s, but the federal government surely prohibits it now for the American West.

[Jo Nuvark]

California DOES practice fire and forest management.
They cut roads and firebreaks year long. California
is much dryer than Alabama and they have had little
water for over two years. The only thing missing
was the jihadi-arsonists match.

My daughter says the whole or Orange County is in a
state of emergency. The air is bad, eyes are stinging,
it’s hot and the Firefighters are near exhaustion.

Father in heaven... please send a miracle. Please
Lord. In Jesus name.

—Jo—