Wasn’t it the combination of a very dry year, lightning, and the Santa Ana winds?
I mean sure, putting out large fires is tricky, but we understand the cause of them pretty well… Fuel + oxygen + heat = fire
That’s not a political thing, that’s a physics thing. All the dei in the world won’t spark a fire, extreme heat will, like a lightning strike (or a teenager with a tent, some wood and no brains).
It was also a lack of water in one of the reservoirs, a cut in the fire department budget, the fractured command structure of the local fire departments, the mayor being out of the country, failure to clear deadfall in the local forests, 100s of fire engines being down for maintenance, fire engines from other states being waylaid for emissions testing, fire equipment donated to Ukraine, a river being diverted into the ocean to save an endangered invasive fish species, and the fire department chief having a philosophy that it’s not her problem if people are stuck in a fire.
Fires get sparked all the time. That’s why we have fire departments: not to prevent fires from sparking, but to prevent them from spreading.
I recognize the river diversion one as an Alex Jones taking point, via Knowledge Fight. Iirc it’s in northern California and wouldn’t help with reservoirs near LA anyway. The river may or may not actually even be diverted for these fish
Wasn’t it the combination of a very dry year, lightning, and the Santa Ana winds?
I mean sure, putting out large fires is tricky, but we understand the cause of them pretty well… Fuel + oxygen + heat = fire
That’s not a political thing, that’s a physics thing. All the dei in the world won’t spark a fire, extreme heat will, like a lightning strike (or a teenager with a tent, some wood and no brains).
It was also a lack of water in one of the reservoirs, a cut in the fire department budget, the fractured command structure of the local fire departments, the mayor being out of the country, failure to clear deadfall in the local forests, 100s of fire engines being down for maintenance, fire engines from other states being waylaid for emissions testing, fire equipment donated to Ukraine, a river being diverted into the ocean to save an endangered invasive fish species, and the fire department chief having a philosophy that it’s not her problem if people are stuck in a fire.
Fires get sparked all the time. That’s why we have fire departments: not to prevent fires from sparking, but to prevent them from spreading.
I know this is false and it brings into question everything else you’ve said. Whoever you’re getting your news from is lying to you.
I recognize the river diversion one as an Alex Jones taking point, via Knowledge Fight. Iirc it’s in northern California and wouldn’t help with reservoirs near LA anyway. The river may or may not actually even be diverted for these fish