On Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 12:10:02 PM UTC-5, BurfordTJustice wrote:
Calif run by your liberals has the most and biggest fires...there is the
story..


As if the weather climate and vegetation is the same in CA as it is in
NY. I've been there hundreds of times and lived there. Have you?










Not your fake news ****.




"trader_4" wrote in message
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: On Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 11:36:17 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote:
: On 17/11/2018 15:56, trader_4 wrote:
: On Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 7:37:08 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote:
: On 17/11/2018 12:30, Frank wrote:
: On 11/17/2018 2:12 AM, Bod wrote:
: Why is it being called a "camp fire"?
:
: They name the fires for the location that they started.
:
: Oh thanks, Frank.
:
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: Bod
:
: That partially answers it. And in this case it's named that because
: it started at Camp Creek Road. There was one a couple months ago
: where on TV and radio they were calling it the "car fire". I wondered
: what that was all about. In print it's the Carr fire, again the name
: of the location it started.
:
: Also thanks, trader.
:
: --
: Bod
:
: I'm waiting to see what happens with the investigation into what started
it.
: Looks like good chance it was caused by a problem with the utility
electric
: lines. They were working on some kind of problem around the time it
: started. Apparently a few others fires in recent years have been started
: the same way. It will be interesting to see what went on, like there was
: talk that there were wires sparking, so did they immediately call in the
: fire dept, to ask for assistance, BEFORE it actually started?
:
: I was thinking about Trump trying to blame forest management for the
problem.
: Instead of trying to point a finger, maybe the fed govt could take a look
: at what can be done to prevent future tragedies? One thing that comes to
: mind is, how many air tankers are available to fight these fires and how
: fast can they respond, when are they called in, etc? I'm betting that
: they don't call those resource in until the fire is already out of control
: and then it probably takes quite some time for them to spin up and arrive.
: How about federal help for a coordinated, multi-state system, where these
: are on standby 24/7, ready to takeoff within mins and they are called upon
: automatically whenever they know they have a potentially serious fire,
: ie one that's in a dry, forest, ready to go up? Is there value in hitting
: it very early, very quickly, with a lot of support, instead of later when
: it's already out of control?