Wildfires burned 875,000 acres in the state last year.
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Better put a multiplier on that.
LA and idiot trash track drivers and arsonists have upped that number just since last night.
When I was in engineering school, many yeas ago, the approved protocol for a fire in a garbage truck was to dump the load on the side of the road. I doubt it has changed.
You really don't want the truck, its contents, the fuel in it and the hydraulic fluid to all burn like a torch.
Now maybe the protocol needs to be changed, but the driver was following best practices.
The amazing thing to me is that fires inside garbage trucks are reasonably common.