The climate change lunatics point to California as proof that the world will end in 12 years if we don’t adopt the Green New Deal. California’s problems across the board are people problems. California has suffered under poor management by governors and both legislative bodies for five decades. This poor management didn’t come at a high cost in the beginning because the population was half of what is today, 40 million as opposed to 19 million in 1970. The population growth with poor management and neglected infrastructure has caused California to burn.
Wildland fires are started in the following ways; people inadvertently or deliberately start them; lightning strikes; power grid lines falling on dry vegetation as a result of high winds. An example of inadvertent; a lot of wildland fires are started from vehicle fires.
The ten-year plan.
Shift our fire services from reactive to proactive. Expand Cal Fire from a seasonal department to a fully staffed department year-round. Compel electricity providers that have powerlines that transverse wildlands in high risks, high winds areas, to begin the burying of said powerlines. Educate the public on how to avoid starting fires with amusing infomercials. Compel every private wildland owner to make a firebreak on the perimeter of their property when it borders a community of 10 more homes and tie their firebreaks into other wildland owners’ firebreaks if applicable.
Cal Fire’s offseason mission would be to make firebreaks and burn vegetation in controlled burns close to high-risk communities. Cal Fire would work with local fire departments. Cal Fire shall expand its use of inmate fireteam crews. Cal Fire shall expand its bulldozer fleet. When the federal government’s wildlands borders communities, Cal Fire shall charge the federal government for the making of firebreaks. Cal fire with local fire departments will make vegetation free-zones under and both sides of powerlines. Cal Fire shall charge the powerline’s owner. When the wet season begins in Northern California, the Cal Fire personnel shall shift to Southern California to continue their proactive duties.
The town of Paradise burned to the ground in 2018. But that’s not the first time that this town has been damaged by fire. In 2003, 2005, 2008, and 2017, Paradise also burned as a result of wildland fires. How many more times will the leaders of California allow this to happen? Firebreaks give fire crews time and breathing space to protect structures.
In the ’70s, California was gripped with a seven-year drought. California didn’t suffer these fire seasons in the ’70s.
Even the cartoonist is calling out California’s idiot political class.
Published by Chief Editor, Sammy Campbell. Written by Mark Pullen.