Wave of Blazes Strains Firefighting Network, From Australia to California

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Fire seasons around the world are growing longer and increasingly overlapping, complicating a shared system to battle them

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RICHMOND AIR FORCE BASE, Australia—Smoke from huge wildfires near Sydney wafted over the tarmac as Jonas Doherty readied a newly modified Boeing 737 equipped to drop 4,000 gallons of firefighting liquid above the blaze.

Mr. Doherty and his co-pilot descended to 150 feet and slowed the aircraft to about 150 miles an hour to empty the load, pressing a red button in the cockpit labeled “tank drop.” The duo and other air-tanker pilots are working 12-hour shifts and flying as many as 15 times a day as Australia battles its worst...

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Outside of CA do people know how bad PGEs practices of tree trimming coupled with sierra club attitude towards forrest management and a draught to boot may have led to our massive fires? Not global warming but al gore was somehow still involved ;)

CA had one of the quietest fire seasons in decades.

Are California wild fires the cause for global warming?

'Sooner or later, but you have to pay for everything'©️ The USA – hyenas of planetary scale Any rope ends .... end

Clearly we need to start burning wood instead of coal for power 🤣

ClimateChange ? 😀😄😄😄

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