Not seeing how this is wrong. California needs to do controlled burns to manage its wild lands, and never does. Feel free to name me another state that regularly has wildfires that make natiinal headlines.
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lets look at Alaska, for example. they only had like what.. 400 fires in 2017 compared to almost 10 000 fires in Cali and yet the amount of acres burned down was HALF that of cali. How long must all that have been burning unattended?
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What exactly is your point? Alaska is a billion times less densely populated. If a tree burns down in a forest and there aren't any people in a 100 mile radius, does it fucking matter?

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What im saying is, you gotta look at other factors to determine efficency. We have one state where theres barely any fires, but they do a huge amount of damage and another where theres tons of fires, but comparatively, the invidividual damage they do *per fire* is very little
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As such it can be argued that the firefighters in CA do a way better job because they have way more fires yet way less damage *per fire* now if youre talking prevention, thats another issue per se.
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The funny thing is prevention is actually how you end up with bigger fires. You prevent the old dead dry wood from burning long enough and what you've made is a giant tinder box.
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Yeah they don't have million dollar homes burning down they have poor rural ranchers losing fields and trees. Property damage is the difference and the difference is California isn't fucking poor.
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Forests and meadows grow back. Houses don't. Yes I'm shocked as well.
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lol a house can be rebuilt in a few weeks. a forest takes decades, in some cases centuries to return depending on the local flora.
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Fires are part of the cycle of life in most areas where they naturally occur. Most species in such areas have adapted to either survive the fires or quickly recolonise the scorched earth with heat-resistant seeds and such.
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oh absolutely, there are actually species that require fires for their reproductive cycle. but the issue is that we (humans) are now near everywhere, and unfortunately a LOT of the fires can be traced back to human influence to some degree.
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not necessarily arson, but even something as innocous as a left behind waterbottle can turn into a lens and start a fire in the right circumstances.
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