I still don’t know why there is no water. They installed three dykes?

Trees don’t explode in real life like they do in the movies. Exploding trees are fake. Ask an wildland firefighter who has spent any amount of time on the job.

A tree struck by lighting is the closest thing to a tree exploding.

Howie Long came clean and apologized to the wildland community after he starred in firestorm.

i think cedars did in the PK fire

Maybe if someone blew one up

i think cedars did in the PK fire

Maybe there was something in the area that was exploding, propane tanks or something.

The absolutely most intense wildfires, sounds more like freight trains, its kind of an eeery unique sound that I've only ever heard once. I worked with several men that were at South Canyon in Colorado, that killed several men, and thats what they used to described what they heard, a freight train.

If you're interested, there is a good book Norman McClean wrote about that fire;

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/166900.Fire_on_the_Mountain

Really bad situation, but a lot was learned from their mistakes.

at PK, the fire was burning so fast, that i think if you had like a mylar suit
you could have stood in the coastal field & it would have burned right past you
i guess you & Reel are right, but something was making a lot of noise
we had a boat on a trailer, the tires melted but the boat & trailer were fine

i am definitely interested in the book
thanks

Probably some bum or arsonist or maybe a bum thats an arsonist, but i'm not catching the connection between a human caused fire start and anything to do with climate change. What would an example of a climate change caused wildfire?

I think the proper argument for those that believe in climate change would be that climate change has exacerbated the situation and made controlling wildfire once they do start. Maybe i'm wrong.

People are blaming climate change for the fire.

it hasn't rained there since last April and the Santa Ana winds that blew in excess of 80MPH. I think thats the proper argument from a climate change perspective is not that the fire started because of climate change. but rather that the extreme conditions that contributed to rapid fire spread is a result of climate change.

The words get easily minced. The fire didn't start because of climate change, it sounds like they started because someone started them. I would say its debatable that the record high winds and drought (hasn't rained since last April) could be considered indicators of climate change by some.