They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won t Anybody Listen? ProPublica
The pattern is a form of insanity: We keep doing overzealous fire suppression across California landscapes where the fire poses little risk to people and structures. As a result, wildland fuels keep building up. At the same time, the climate grows hotter and drier. Then, boom: the inevitable. The wind blows down a power line, or lightning strikes dry grass, and an inferno ensues. This week we ve seen both the second- and third-largest fires in California history. The fire community, the progressives, are almost in a state of panic, Ingalsbee said. There s only one solution, the one we know yet still avoid. We need to get good fire on the ground and whittle down some of that fuel load.
But cutting down trees isn’t healthy for children and other living things.