“The bottom line is the winds far outweigh the fuel in terms of fire spread in a
situation like this,” Jon Keeley, a fire ecologist with the U.S. Geological
Survey told LAist. “When you have these winds it makes fuels less relevant. And
the fuels are definitely not relevant once it gets into the urban environment,
because the primary fuels are the homes.”

Essentially, Tuesday's firestorm was an anomaly.

"There is a set of weather and climate conditions that are so extreme under
which there's not a whole lot that even very well-prepared places can do to
manage the most extreme wildfire events,” CLA climate scientist Daniel Swain
told LAist. “We're seeing the limits of what technology and preparedness can
actually achieve in conditions like this."

Fennessy told the LA Times that the fire was being blown by such fierce winds,
the structures in its path were even serving as fuel.

“You could have put a 10-lane freeway in front of that fire and it would not
have slowed it one bit,” Fennessy said.

Officials throughout the week also noted that the gusts flung embers miles from
the front lines.

In Northern California and the Sierra Nevada, decades of fire suppression have
led to an accumulation of trees and brush, which often fuel large wildfires.
Reducing this vegetation can enhance fire resilience and improve forest health
by alleviating competition among plants for limited resources, Patrick T. Brown,
co-director of the climate and energy team at the Breakthrough Institute told
the Times.

Brown explained that removing brush — and thereby reducing available fuel —
could decrease wildfire intensity in the Los Angeles Basin, even during extreme
weather conditions. However, such measures would likely not have prevented the
level of destruction caused by the Palisades Fire this week, he said.

https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/lack-brush-clearance-questioned-palisades-fire-rages-report

More brush clearance wouldn't have done a fucking thing to mitigate the fires.

See my post from over the weekend about stupid fucking Trumpswabs always
preferring cheap fiction/lies to complex and costly truth.

[Default] Rudy "Cunt Flaps" Canoza <rudy@phil.hendrie.con> typed:

>“The bottom line is

you were caught lying.

FACT