“They may have killed hundreds.”
My wife and I were dumbfounded after talking to evacuees from Santa Rosa at the hotel, restaurants, stores and on the beach, that they were not told to evacuate.
Would you please in a separate reply repost your info about how farmers and ranchers were prevented by the enviral whackoos from removing weeds and creating firebreaks around their property.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/epa-waterways-wetlands-rule-118319
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernal_pool
Nearly every acre of land from San Francisco to Eureka has a tributary stream (even if dry in summer) and vernal pools. EPA claimed jurisdiction over all of it in 2015 and said farmers, ranchers...anyone...could not cut anything within 100 feet of these “protected waters”.
The CA EPA supports and enforces these rules stridently.
Underbrush and grasses exploded.
Then they exploded in fire.
That’s the root cause of this horrible tragedy.