see url:
https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen
Interesting article on how to control fires properly and help prevent
them from being so devastating in the future...
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why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad.
by Elizabeth Weil Aug. 28, 1:30 p.m. EDT
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What a week. Rough for all Californians. Exhausting for the firefighters
on the front lines. Heart-shattering for those who lost homes and loved
ones. But a special “Truman Show” kind of hell for the cadre of men and
women who’ve not just watched California burn, fire ax in hand, for the
past two or three or five decades, but who’ve also fully understood the
fire policy that created the landscape that is now up in flames.
“What’s it like?” Tim Ingalsbee repeated back to me, wearily, when I
asked him what it was like to watch California this past week. In 1980,
Ingalsbee started working as a wildland firefighter. In 1995, he earned
a doctorate in environmental sociology. And in 2005, frustrated by the
huge gap between what he was learning about fire management and seeing
on the fire line, he started Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and
Ecology. Since then FUSEE has been lobbying Congress, and trying to
educate anybody who will listen, about the misguided fire policy that is
leading to the megafires we are seeing today.
So what’s it like? “It’s just … well … it’s horrible. Horrible to see
this happening when the science is so clear and has been clear for
years. I suffer from Cassandra syndrome,” Ingalsbee said. “Every year I
warn people: Disaster’s coming. We got to change. And no one listens.
And then it happens.”
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