True, but everything around them usually burns. Once the homes and businesses are destroyed and insurance companies are bankrupted from mass claims, the area is ripe for a land grab. Its one of many ways to drive out the ordinary population to be able to steal their property, but probably the most efficient.
Our city freeways all have buffer zones of gravel and tall concrete walls. Even tanker crashes don't go far. Recycling yards (and they are a necessary evil) have more dangerous fires. We've had 2 4-alarm fires in a week and a propane yard fire before that, they all affected their neighbors . There's a zoning issue that must be common in cities. Recycling requires acres of stacked up flammables. It also creates big areas which are now too toxic for anything else.
True, but everything around them usually burns. Once the homes and businesses are destroyed and insurance companies are bankrupted from mass claims, the area is ripe for a land grab. Its one of many ways to drive out the ordinary population to be able to steal their property, but probably the most efficient.
Our city freeways all have buffer zones of gravel and tall concrete walls. Even tanker crashes don't go far. Recycling yards (and they are a necessary evil) have more dangerous fires. We've had 2 4-alarm fires in a week and a propane yard fire before that, they all affected their neighbors . There's a zoning issue that must be common in cities. Recycling requires acres of stacked up flammables. It also creates big areas which are now too toxic for anything else.