Lightning starts 800 Fires In Calif.

[Jamo]

Originally Posted by 4RE KLR

Makes you wonder why it is always California that has those forest fires. You would think they would spend more tax payer money on prevention or combative tools.

Are any of them close to you Ron. I hope your not in danger out there.

This is exactly why we have these monster fires...dumbass liberal enviro-morons can't stand to see a tree burn, so we put out fires that should've burned well before all the damn underbrush got so thick, and they stopped the forest service from using prescribed burns as part of intelligent forest management. On top of that, they stopped healthy harvesting of deadwood and overgrown old growth forests. Finally, they took the ability of ranchers to use vast tracks of scrub areas to keep fuel under control.

Liberals are maggots upon the life of this planet and need to get off at the next rotation.

You are welcome.

[Ron61]

Steve,

I just talked to the forest service and some of the fires about 20 miles from Redding that they thought they had contained have jumped the lines and they have no idea of when they may get them under control. Also one is starting down the canyons toward the lake and that underbrush is so bad that if it gets to that canyon all they can do is back off and let it go until it gets to the top of a mountain where they can try to stop it. Once it becomes a crown fire, it is very hard to contain. I believe they told me there were 1200 lightning strikes during Saturday's storm. The smoke and haze seems to be getting worse as the day goes by.
Jamo answered you with a very good explanation. They tried to clear out the dead brush and log some old trees here a couple of years back and the tree huggers had a fit and got it stopped.

Edit to add: Here is a link to the local paper where you can read about all the fires and they have a link to the map showing them. http://recordsearchlight.com/

Edit: This will change daily if anyone is interested.

Ron

[wtm442]

Originally Posted by Jamo

Liberals are maggots upon the life of this planet and need to get off at the next rotation.
You are welcome.

Can I quote you on that? Thanks for the laugh.