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Then why do we send in firefighters? I didn't say we should stop the forest fires, I said we want to control them. Almost 100 people died in California last y

Then why do we send in firefighters? I didn't say we should stop the forest fires, I said we want to control them. Almost 100 people died in California last year and there was $3.5 billion in damage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_wildfires

lm28469 8y ago
Yes we do try to control them, but that's a last resort, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EodxubsO8EI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EodxubsO8EI Same problem with Texas and floods, Florida and hurricanes, &c. building in risk zones is inherently dangerous. The people who died knew the risks.