Sounds like emergency responders will be dealing with a lot of things like this in the future.
And even as people deal with the loss of houses, other vital property, and friends and relatives. Santorum is on TV defending Trump’s talk about raking, saying there’s no scientific consensus on climate change and all the rest. If Trump said Democrats were literal lizard people from the moon, Santorum would find a way to defend it.
The smoke generated by this fire made the air quality all over the SF Bay Area, East Bay and Sacramento the worst in the world for a week. It was like fog, except it was smoke. Not nearly as bad as what the people of Paradise had to go through, but speaks to the immense devastation and size of this problem. Each year the fires are getting larger, more intense and more frequent in California.
And the residents of those cities were extremely lucky. We live south of the July 5 Klamathon Fire, north of the Carr Fire (fire tornado), north of the Delta Fire (shut down I-5, melted semi trucks), northwest of the Hirz Fire, west of the Camp Fire–not to mention a couple dozen other relatively nearby fires. We did not see the sky from July 5 until the first week in October, not once. Everything was hazy and orange and smelled like smoke and everybody felt mildly sick for over three months. And that was all before the Camp Fire.
A depressing statement.
Here in SF on the first day the air was beginning to clear and there were blue skies and sunshine, it felt like something close to a miracle. I’ve never lost sight of the losses and heartbreak the people in the towns which were destroyed experienced, but I’m grateful that we here had a new day at last.
CNN has decided it needs him and other recently hired half-baked commentators to create further, more long lasting discussions of trumpp. Because he doesn’t yet dominate 100% of all available press coverage.
Bugger Santorum. But I repeat myself.
California has a remarkably effective statewide mutual aid system for firefighting. There’s a website that displays our county fire and rescue incidents, and for many years during fire season (now playing year-round) I’ve watched as various strike teams deployed from all of our local agencies to whatever part of the state was on fire.
Last year, it was our turn - on nowhere near as large a scale as some of the others, but still scary enough if you’re driving home through the smoke. Seeing all the convoys of fire apparatus from counties 100 and more miles away on the road to defend our homes is something I’ll never forget.
This is the inefficient government that is the problem, not the solution that these bastards are trying to shrink to the point they can drown it in a bathtub.
Been working here since the 50s. Funny, eh?