Posted on 08/19/2020 3:05:11 PM PDT by rintintin
Californias ability to fight wildfires, already compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, is being severely strained by a rash of lightning strikes and a stupefying array of new fires.
As major fires burned from Lake County to the South Bay, Cal Fire officials said Wednesday theyre struggling to keep up with 367 new fires that have broken out over the past three days, the result of nearly 11,000 lightning strikes.
Firefighting resources are depleted as new fires continue to ignite, said Jeremy Rahn, a Cal Fire spokesman, at a press briefing in Calistoga on the fires burning in the North Bay. He said Cal Fire is asking out-of-state agencies to rush 375 fire engines to the state, and share hand crews and other resources.
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article245083025.html#storylink=cpy
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Send the social workers in.
Yeah, California need to get like 30,000 illegal aliens with their leaf blowers, send them to these fires and they can blow these fires back on themselves.
Throw the homeless at it
They put new mandates on us about how to behave, what to wear, how we are billeted, only crews already exposed to one another are supposed to work together. I exposed myself hoping to get sent home.
Everything is compromised by the COVID pandemic. Teachers totally want to get back to teaching in person if they can be sure it is “safe”. Unfortunately, it can never be completely safe while COVID exists. I feel like I am alone within a mass delusion. People wear masks, avoid other people, take each others’ temperatures, use hand sanitizer, wipe down surfaces, put up plexiglass walls, all because they might catch COVID.
But what will happen if they catch COVID? Of course! They will die! But they won’t die. The odds of dying are 1/2 of 1 percent if you are diagnosed, 1/8000 if you don’t get a positive diagnosis, of course 0 if you get a negative diagnosis. The odds of getting covid are 1 out of 40, just to catch it, chances of dying 1/20, if you do catch it. Numbers based on 8000 homeless people in San Francisco, 200 positive tests, 1 fatality.
1 chance out of 40 to win any prize, and 1 of 8000 of winning an upper-tier cash prize, nobody would buy a lottery ticket with odds like those.
Exposed yourself how? Doesn’t sound prudent. Oh, you mean to infection!
It’s OK. There is a 9.3 magnitude earthquake scheduled for September 5th. That will put them out.
Tough to be fighting brushfires. Look what can happen...
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article245000100.html
Worried about what?
Wasn't that in The Big Lebowski? No, something like it, though.
That’s the one!
All I can do is SMH.
Just weird.
What will REALLY be weird is if he’s right.
I never thought much about predictions or gave them much credence.
We’ve had a bizarre year already. I won’t write this off to be honest, even though predicting earthquakes seems highly unscientific.
Wonder if a fuel-air explosive bomb would knock a forest fire down
So is predicting pandemics.
“Too many inmates were released from prison. They are no longer available to fight fires.”
I think there’s truth to this.
The lightning and thunder were very unusual
I see it all the time when Im back in New Jersey every single day but out here its very rare
LOL
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