Re: OT: Typical Globlist

On 1/19/2025 5:18 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:36:08 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 1/19/2025 4:49 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
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The proposition that radiant heat generated by one burning would set off
an adjacent house is pretty dumb. Fire codes are written to make sure
that houses aren't vulnerable in that way.

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In that case, what spread the fire?
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Embers can fly up to 20 km depending on fuel and weather conditions, and
during high winds fire breaks are useless.
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Observe embers from this doorbell cam:
<https://www.instagram.com/abc7marccr/reel/DEny6FGSX1f/>

 I don't doubt embers could have spread the original fires. What's
puzzling is how the hell could they have got massive and out of
control in the first place.

2024 was globally the hottest year on record, and Los Angeles experienced its warmest summer ever, following a decade of record heat. It's mitigated somewhat when the winter rains show up this year they didn't show up.
The hills above Altadena/Pasadena have had lots of burns controlled and otherwise in recent years but after a certain percentage of the larger trees are gone (from climate change or logging/development or otherwise) they controlled burns don't do shit except let even more flammable invasive species in. The hills up there were covered in foxtail:
<https://californiaagnet.com/2021/04/20/the-many-faces-of-foxtails/>
the stuff burns like newsprint