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Fire is a part of the lifecycle of many of the plants native to California. If power lines didn't spark fires, something else would (lightning if nothing else).
by JoshuaDavid 5y ago
Fire is a part of the lifecycle of many of the plants native to California. If power lines didn't spark fires, something else would (lightning if nothing else).
That said, power lines do have a tendency to spark fires in remote areas on the windiest days, which is not ideal. But eliminating power lines still wouldn't eliminate brush fires.
- raldi 5y agoBut once you start letting people build houses in fire country, they pressure the local and state government to suppress those natural fires, and thus, instead of frequent manageable ones, we get less-frequent infernos.