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The Carr wildfire is on track to be one of the worst wildfires in California’s history. To date the wildfire has destroyed over one thousand homes, putting over 2,000 additional structures in jeopardy. Roughly 40,000 people were forced to evacuate the area due to these dangerous flames. The Northern Californian fires have been raging for a week with just under a third of the flames contained.
The fire is so large and hot that it is creating its own localized weather system. The strong winds make it difficult to predict which way the blaze will blow, producing storm and tornado-like conditions alongside the fire. Scientists have attributed the increase in the ferocity of wildfires, fueled by higher temperatures and less rain, to climate change. Crews have taken to the charred fields to document the damage inspection, making these estimates subject to change.
If it gets big enough and destroys enough, maybe they’ll only need to divide into two states.
what are the odds that the fires are set by federal $ starved demoncraps?
i have a feeling that the 2 are connected tbh..
The Carr fire was stated by a flat tire.
https://ktla.com/2018/08/04/flat-tire-in-redding-started-deadly-carr-fire-the-6th-most-destructive-wildfire-in-california-history/
And since the tire was attached to a fossil fuel guzzling vehicle that spews CO2 and water vapor into the air, thus causing the greenhouse effect, thereby warming the planet, the fire was started by global warming. Or some stupid shit like that.
We had a wildfire up top of us (San Jacinto Mountain) in Palm Springs – around Idyllwild – last week. Lots of smoke and ash came down around us for a few days, and it was only a tenth of the size of the one at Carr.
Here is the real issue. California has simply not prepared for these wildfires. They are not like hurricanes that may only strike once every decade or so in any given state. They happen every year and in many places all over the state. They have burned down over 10,000 homes in the past 10 months. It is possible a big fire in an urban area could burn 100,000 homes down because California does not have enough firefighters and equipment to stop these fires before they get out of control.
California needs to buy dozens of heavy lift helicopters to move men and equipment to the scene of these fires when they start. It simply takes too long to get fire engines and crews from the states big urban areas to remote locations using roads.
If California doesn’t want to spend the money to buy the helicopters and aircraft necessary the EPA should start fining the state for violating Federal air quality standards and I’m talking big fines as millions of people in California and adjacent states are forced to breathe dangerously polluted air for days when these fires grow to hundreds of thousands of acres. Those fines could be used to buy the equipment Jerry Brown has refused to acquire and deployed to fight these fires when they are still small.
I’m not one to believe in conspiracy theories, but that so-called fire is doing strange things that are difficult to explain.
https://youtu.be/rEqaeNWkSDg