Every year, the West undergoes wildfire and smoke season. Every year, we forget that the West burns. Every year, the wrong people control the narrative about wildfire.
Absolutely! And by preventing all fires, we now have fuel loads that no fire suppression method or technology can stop. Without natural or human-assisted methods of forest thinning, we end up with nuclear bomb-levels of potential energy stored on the ground, and nothing but megafires to clear it out.
You want to talk about a pit in your stomach, it's watching an EF3 fire tornado churn its way into your community on the TV as you and your crew are desperately trying to keep the power on so there is pressure to the fire hydrants. ##CarrFire
Dropping this here:
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/editorials/public-safety-power-outages-just-the-beginning/article_90b91112-faba-11ef-ad2c-ff7702239390.html
Right?! No surprise, either:
https://boulderreportinglab.org/2024/01/12/wildfire-lawsuits-surge-against-xcel-energy-boulder-county-joins-200-plus-other-cases-after-marshall-fire-deadline/
It’s well known the native American tribes in California routinely set planned burns to control the fuel pack before the settlers arrived
Absolutely! And by preventing all fires, we now have fuel loads that no fire suppression method or technology can stop. Without natural or human-assisted methods of forest thinning, we end up with nuclear bomb-levels of potential energy stored on the ground, and nothing but megafires to clear it out.
You want to talk about a pit in your stomach, it's watching an EF3 fire tornado churn its way into your community on the TV as you and your crew are desperately trying to keep the power on so there is pressure to the fire hydrants. ##CarrFire