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I do wonder how the fires would be if Australia had worse firefighting infrastructure. It seems like aggressive firefighting efforts reduce the damage caused by

I do wonder how the fires would be if Australia had worse firefighting infrastructure. It seems like aggressive firefighting efforts reduce the damage caused by smaller fires but leave more fuel for "the big one", when it comes.

viraptor 7y ago
It's not that trivial. Planned burns were managed by firefighters as well, to reduce the amount of available fuel. Now we're not doing enough of it. Firefighters is not a great name in this case and just having better infrastructure doesn't imply actually stopping all fires.