Timothy Birdnow

A big part of why California is burning stems from their bewildering unwillingness to remove dry brush and deadwood from rural areas, thus providing far too much fuel to feed a fire. Removing the debris reduces the fire and saves homes - and lives.

Now California officials are twisting and squirming to deny this little detail, but it's easily proven. All one must do is look at other states prone to wildfires and compare and contrast.

Take Florida, for example. Now, when anyone says Florida people automatically think of the beach and Disney World but the reality is Florida is a big, flat plain subject to high winds. And while parts of the state are swamp, large swaths of it are grassland and scrubland. In fact, Florida was once a great cattle state, rivaling Texas (which also is a big fire state) and the term "cracker" for a southern hick comes from Florida cowboys who used whips to drive cattle. At any rate, Florida has a fraction of the wild fires seen in California and there is a reason for that; they do controlled burns in Florida on a regular basis before fire season.

There were 2,338 wildfires reported in 2024, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, burning 64,170 acres. Yet we did not see anywhere near the devastation as we have seen in L.A.

By the end of 2024, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres in California. One quarter of the wildfires in Florida. So why didn't we hear much about the Florida fires? Because they caused so much less damage. Florida does controlled burns and debris removal.

And Texas? As of August of 2024 (the latest I could find records on) Texas had seen
over a million acres burned by wildfires, yet the property damage was far less than in California. Texas does controlled burns and brush removal.

This isn't rocket science. There are places that burn - it's natural for them. You either have to let them burn and simply stay out of those areas or you have to take fire-prevention measures.

The Leftist moonbats who run California don't want to do that, then complain about the fires and blame "climate change" when it's just bad policy.

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