Posted on 09/02/2009 1:22:11 PM PDT by kellynla
ping
Well - let me be the first:
If this was a year ago, then we would be hearing “Bush’s Fault!”
But since the 0bamaMessiah is in office, we now can hear “it STILL must be Bush’s fault”.
Now I’m going to go puke.
I have always wondered how they can figure out how a fire started? What different sign is there from say spontaneous combustion, a lightning bolt, or a hot tail pipe?
It’s actually Brush’s Fault, not Bush’s ;-)
They rely on when and where it is reported initially,, areas that are most suspect will be examined closely for telltale signs or evidence,, fire&forest forensic scientists.. could have just been a rock off of a mower blade ,, they’re pretty good at it. they get a lot of practice lately.
I watch a couple of USFS Rangers down on their hands and knees on the side of a Freeway until they found a white ash remains of cigarette. The another fire they found a paper match folder set up to ignite when a match stuck in the side lite the rest. All that was left was ash but is was enough. Since the “Station Fire” was right up the road from
a USFS Fire Station the first crew there had a pretty good idea where the source started. A series of 4th of July sparklers thrown from a PU Truck started a half mile long string of fire. They found all 12 of the sparklers.
I didn’t mean to say that the “Station Fire” was started by sparklers. I was trying to show another case of arson fire
where alot of work found the sources.
NASA sat snaps LA wildfire ( Station Fire Just North of Los Angeles)
Disgusting ping.
Ernest, I was wondering if and when we would hear of a cause, as I didn’t recall hearing that info. I gather they still haven’t determined whether accidental or deliberate.
I actually heard this days ago.
More specifics about this was that the fire was started not far from where there was a rest stop area for cars to stop.
The thing they have NOT been able to tell yet is whether it was an accident or something as sinister as terrorist.
Bottom line. “if” the Feds had allowed us to cut the forestry back over the years we might have saved the lives of two Firefighters, almost 100 homes and who knows how many millions of dollars to fight the fires.
Hah! Whatever the cause is, officials are very tight-lipped about it!!
I am just very upset that the majority of the damage to life(my grandfather was a Fire Captain) & property that these fires have caused over the years could have been prevented “if” the gov’t had allowed us to “clearcut” the forestry.
“stupid is as stupid does.”
It's not forest, it's scrub. There's no economic value to it and thinning it over the hundreds of thousands of acres of the San Gabriels, with it's steep hillsides, would be hugely expensive, dangerous and difficult.
“There’s no economic value to it and thinning it over the hundreds of thousands of acres of the San Gabriels, with it’s steep hillsides, would be hugely expensive, dangerous and difficult.”
Every heard of GOATS!
SZ
I have come to learn over the years that our terrain is unique. Although there is pine, there are a variety of other low-growing plants: ceanothus, manzanita, sage, oak, etal. This, combined with rugged mountain terrain, poses a challenge to clearing. As mentioned by another poster, even weather conditions enter in as a factor in when to clear. This is an early “fire season.”
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