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Many of the most damaging fires here in southern California have been started by people doing things during a red flag warning that they absolutely should not b
by russdill 2y ago
Many of the most damaging fires here in southern California have been started by people doing things during a red flag warning that they absolutely should not be doing. Loss of property, loss of life.
- adamrezich 2y agoWell, that, and your corrupt state's government squandering its unthinkably massive budget as usual, instead of spending it on adequate fire prevention. (For those saying Californian forests are federally managed—what is https://www.fire.ca.gov https://www.fire.ca.gov ?)
- Alupis 2y agoA non-trivial number of these fires in recent years have been traced to homeless encampments as well.
- adamrezich 2y agoThat can't be true—those are all responsible, upstanding Californians!
- uberman 2y agoThe majority of forest in CA is federally owned and managed.
- olalonde 2y agoMore evidence that people get numb to the warnings and ignore them.
- bobthepanda 2y agoThe problem really is that the baseline is adjusting so that formerly routine activities can quickly become dangerous, but people do not want to adjust their expectations on what they should do. It’s a tough problem; people love campfires and they love fireworks, but it is legitimately becoming risky to do that without starting a large forest fire for large parts of the year in places.