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Wildfire season thread

Do some research about PG&E. Especially look at the investigative work done by ABC10. There's a series on YouTube called " Fire, Power, Money". PG&E is a corrupt corporation and so are the politicians of both parties that enable them.

Mad
 
Maddevill said:
Do some research about PG&E. Especially look at the investigative work done by ABC10. There's a series on YouTube called " Fire, Power, Money". PG&E is a corrupt corporation and so are the politicians of both parties that enable them.

Mad
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Agreed. CPUC has been a blatantly corrupt entity for a long time. it's top execs should have been hauled off in handcuff's many times in the past.
 
CPUC has so many PG&E former employees on it that it's ridiculous.
 
Maddevill said:
Do some research about PG&E. Especially look at the investigative work done by ABC10. There's a series on YouTube called " Fire, Power, Money". PG&E is a corrupt corporation and so are the politicians of both parties that enable them.

Mad
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I've done research re: PG&E, if you're talking to me. As a sanctioned for-profit monopoly, PG&E is no more corrupt as the powers that be allow. All I'm saying is I don't think they're as culpable for all the fires we'd like to think. And keep paying your exorbitant bills; my long position thanks you.
 
Seems like they let their guard down with the Caldor Fire and it's flaring back up in SE side.

Down here, there are two large wildfires burning hear Sequoia National park and the smoke plume is extending down into Fresno and screwing up our air. Going to suck for awhile, especially as it seems they don't have the resources on location to really slow it down. The closer one is about 60 miles to the east.
 
Climber said:
Seems like they let their guard down with the Caldor Fire and it's flaring back up in SE side.
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Let their guard down? The Caldor isn't doing much of anything except burning through an area between scars. The USFS has a much more 'let it burn' approach/mentality.
 
scootergmc said:
Let their guard down? The Caldor isn't doing much of anything except burning through an area between scars. The USFS has a much more 'let it burn' approach/mentality.
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The area due east of the current burning area isn't a scar, from Cal Topo map. A few days ago it was just down to embers but now looks much larger and they've had some very high winds there a few days ago.

I'm sure they're stretched very thin with no good options around California.
 
Climber said:
The area due east of the current burning area isn't a scar
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Like I said, it's a let it burn mentality when it comes to unpopulated areas. The area due east is basically all forest, but for the area northeast to South Upper Truckee road. They'll keep flying aircraft as they have been doing and address what they need to. There's not much to get worked up about right now.
 
Good news here.

The Eucs in the cemetery behind my house will be coming down by year end.

It only took since 2017 when the Tubbs fire almost headed this way to convince them.

This is just a few of them.

50 of them or so in all.
 

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I had no idea how flammable eucalyptus was until reading about SF's work to reduce the number of those trees in our open spaces. Definitely not the kinda tree you want catching fire nearby.
 
They smell really good when you fell them too. Cleaning the saw afterwards sucks though.
 
N4teTheGreat said:
I had no idea how flammable eucalyptus was until reading about SF's work to reduce the number of those trees in our open spaces. Definitely not the kinda tree you want catching fire nearby.
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This was taken just this week at a fire in Penngrove.

They essentially explode into fire and in our case, 50+ of them would destroy the cemetery's 100's of native Oaks.

 
That's a hell of a picture! A short video of that looped would make an outstanding video frame picture.

Years ago I lived in a place in Oakhurst that had Manzanita all around, heard it burns very hot.
 
Climber said:
Years ago I lived in a place in Oakhurst that had Manzanita all around, heard it burns very hot.
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Manzanita has incredible energy density.

Angel Island eradicated all eucalyptus years ago, after the Oakland hills fire, to eliminate the possibility that burning material from those trees could drift over to the mainland and start fires there.
 
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Explodalyptus in fires.
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cedar are apparently similar. prior to buying where we did in the foothills (foresthill), my SO nixed a property i had fallen in love with (his response ‘oh hell no’). he was a fire science major in college (although he never worked in that capacity). he took one look at the dozen or so ginormous cedars on the property and said ‘these trees don’t just burn in a fire - they explode’. and that was the end of that opportunity.

on another note - Cal Fire announced that the fire that came the closest to where we ended up buying (Bridge fire) was arson. what. the. actual. fuck?!?! some seriously sick fucks out there.
 
When PG&E insisted that our 100+ year old oaks were a hazard and needed to go, they did’nt, then offered to help replant with pine we knew they were full of crap.
 
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