Aircraft zoomed over the house moments ago to a location 4 miles northeast from here near the San Jacinto River. Dubbed the Willow Fire, too soon for any information on it. With a mild Santa Ana wind they need to quickly get the upper hand on these events.
While I was mowing the lawn there was a column of smoke about a mile north of here. Planes circling and swooping down on Park Hill, home of the local bison herd.
Well that’s what happens when a state is ruled by Dems for fifty years with no opposition. It’s simply hit a breaking point now. The lefties here try so hard to be “green” yet every summer/fall we have the worst air quality in the nation, and every year we have the most people contributing to child slave labor digging for cobalt in the Congo. Real great job Californians. Way to ruin a great place.
Millions of acres of California forest have been blackened by wildfires this summer, leading to the usual angry denunciations from the usual quarters about climate change. But in 1999, the Associated Press reported that forestry experts had long agreed that “clearing undergrowth would save...
Looks like too much politics, too little care about facts. I think every year there are controlled burns in California - but this is a huge undertaking, firemen need to be on guard and the area is limited so that the whole thing can be kept under control. So it's quite obvious that it can only be done on very small areas in the neighboorhood of buildings. Also, blaming the growth of the bushes on firefighting efforts is kinda ridiculous - how could it affect half of California?
As triple-digit temps continue to bake SoCal, it also increases the risk of wildfires. Now the world's largest firefighting helicopters are in California helping agencies better fight those fires.
“Numerous firefighting air tankers from throughout the State are flying fire suppression missions as conditions allow.”
-Cal Fire statement
Just fact checking as of now, not a single aircraft over the Line Fire as it explodes to 20,000 acres but six aircraft working the fire at Camp Pendelton Marine base which nobody off post can even see.
Apparently they need a big fire somewhere so as to increase funding for the agency in this area. Wildfire politics is definitely a thing.