They’ve got houses made of wood and cardboard, they seem to be well prepared.
As a SoCal city dweller, large scale fires were mostly a non issue as long as you live in urban areas. The response is always quick enough to prevent entire neighborhoods from getting rolled over, as the system is designed to handle surges by sharing resources. However, much like with hospitals dealing with outbreaks, there is usually an upper limit to how much they can do.
There has never been anything like this in modern history because this fire was a consequence of climate change. Excessive dryness and powerful winds created the wildfire equivalent of a flash flood, leaving firefighters little time to react. They were already fighting a war on the coast, but the storm created a blitzkrieg that descended onto densely populated areas before they could properly redeploy.
This is just speculation, but I suspect that death toll isn’t in the hundreds or thousands because they prioritized evacuation over saving property. The areas hit were more urban than I ever thought possible, and it really could’ve been far worse given how quickly everything happened. The budget cuts didn’t help, but this event was so extreme that I doubt a bigger budget could’ve saved many homes. In this case, the wrath of nature against ALL of humanity is most responsible,
…because this fire was a consequence of climate change.
You mean that thing that’s happening, that we haven’t been able to stop, caused this fire to be worse? Who could have predicted this?? (/s)
I live in the state of Victoria, Australia and we have, in fact, predicted this. We have a statewide fire service, we don’t cut their funding, and we have strict building codes in fire-prone areas, as well as stricter overall no matter where in the state you build.
We’ve studied the impacts of climate change, and prepare for the worst.
You make an excellent point that the SoCal fires will have high property value damage but low life loss because people were prioritized over property.
Well they need the tank more than ever now, so that was absolutely necessary and well planned.
Because of all the newly homeless people or …?
well wouldn’t need a tank with proper fire prevention in the first place
“Have we tried nuking the fire ?”
- Donald Trump(probably)
they tried to deport it but all the I.C.E. agents kept melting
takes a Sharpie and crosses out the fire
Cunningly suggests simply injecting uv light into the fire to kill it.
- You can backslash the - and it won’t become an unordered list element
\- like this
- Fun fact: nukes WERE actually used to extinguish fires! Gas well fire, oil well fire, both in Soviet Union.
