San Diego: Major fires burn homes, force evacuations

[AtheistCrusader]

7. This sucks. This is so preventable.

There are many MANY local mitigation strategies to prevent this. Fire breaks, building/property zone codes. Backburning and clearing in the winter/fall.

Ok, can't backburn because of the drought? Well, you gotta go in there and rip all that tinder and shit out by hand. Thousands of acres worth of it. It's gotta go.


This isn't so different from the work to prepare for quakes here in Seattle, or the effort to prepare for tornadoes in the Midwest.


Gotta do it. And you gotta do it before it's bearing down on you.


I have family down there, and I'm worried. If there's something more to this than what I've observed, fine, but it looks, to an outsider, like a total failure of local governance to prepare for one of the most obvious threats to the area.