Here is a control burn taking place with optimum weather conditions for controlling a fire. The naysayers need to watch while imagining this during single digit humidity with 70 mph winds blowing.Most of the fires here aren't even "forests"...they are chapparel and scrub brush. People are told to clear and plant ice plant.....but sometimes, like in Santa Rosa....ain't nothing gonna stop it.Have you ever seen a Santa Ana wind driven firestorm? If not, you really don't know how fast they move. Plus, they jump....sometimes miles.California fires: At least 23 dead as hundreds reported missing - CNN
The whole world has been watching these fires for DAYS. How can you not know it's time to GET THE FUCK OUT when you're only miles from the fires. Meanwhile I'm sitting in the heartland and even I know if you're near that shit it's time to go.
I don't mean to seem insensitive but WTF??? These deaths are just mind bogglingly senseless to me.
Q Bodey: Do they make fire cuts in the forest in CA?
I find it incredibly hard to believe fire jumps miles. Seriously.
Yeah- most of those commenting here have no clue what the vegetation and terrain are like up there. Lots of very steep terrain- probably 2/3's chapparel and about 1/3 forested- mostly depends on which direction the slope faces. Fire roads are cut through most of the private and public land, but there are incredibly steep sloops through much of that area that cannot be cut with dozers- so owners usually don't cut fire breaks on the slopes but on the ridges or flats.