California fire mystery: No major summer brush fires after years of record destruction

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After two years of devastating wildfires that burned more than 1.8-million acres in 2018 and 1.2-million acres in 2017, as of Sunday only 51,079 acres have burned this year across state and federal lands in California.

Gawking tourists hung halfway out their car windows, cameras aimed at firefighters and flames along the shoulder of Generals Highway.

A wildland firefighter carries his gear during a prescribed burn to get rid of dead trees and fallen brush in the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park.The largest blaze in state history — the Mendocino Complex fire — was roaring through Lake County. A monster fire was taking aim at Lake Elsinore. And in Redding, hundreds of residential lots were in rubble from a blaze that made a deadly march into city subdivisions, with a “fire tornado” adding to the the destruction.

“First responders are preparing, and the public needs to do that too,” said Mike Mohler, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “We don’t want to cry wolf, but we want people to be on heightened alert.… We have not let our guard down.”Following two years of unprecedented destruction, Gov.

Once the floor is cleared and the fire has opened up space in the canopy for light to break through, tiny sequoia cones no bigger than the palm of your hand will dry out from the flames’ heat and burst open. The expectation is that some of those seeds will fall onto open, fertile soil and germinate, establishing the next generation of 3,000-year-old behemoths.

 

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Amazing when you manage a forest instead of leaving dead trees and leaves to burn...Blame Environmentalists for the previous fires

So, forest maintenance and fire prevention efforts do work after all. How nobody knew it before.

Has it been cooler? Did we have a wet winter? Have we had fewer electrical storms? Many factors create the conditions for fires. It’s all about the conditions. 🤔

🙏🙏💔💔💔please !California people deserve a solution...

Well everything already burned

G l o b a l a l a r m i s m c o o l i n g

The fuel moisture level in the vegetation is starting to dry out. Fire season will take off here soon with the arrival of the Santa Ana’s. We’ll be fighting fires well into Christmas.

Instead of raking 10s of millions of forest undergrowth up the rains returned and the fires were manageable.

Fire season starts in September.

Bcuz Trump put a stop to the DEW fires.

It's called rain.

It's still early....so many happen in the dry early fall from my years living in SoCal.

Statistically significantly less to burn, I would imagine

Shhhhhh

If only there weren't tarriffs on Chinese rakes

The Cabal is too busy setting the Amazon on fire.

Is there a reason why California doesnt have an emergency sprinkler systen that takes water from the ocean and sprays is in dry areas, or starts up in case theres a fire? I know it would be expensive but theres gotta be a way

Wildfires have been on the decline for years. Except where mismanaged

This event staged for climate change movement - - Amazon burning. No one would believe it, no one wants to see it. The child sex trafficking ring is just as big and REAL. globalcitizenfestival tomorrowland uncoverthemusic timeforabetterday

Shhhhhhh! Lest we wake the beast! The world needs a break from burning and polluting.

ClimateChangeHoax

Don’t jinx it.

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