Disaster capitalism at it again... first the hurricanes this past fall, now wildfires in California. Anyone else think this is done intentionally? What is the end goal for them? (think: Maui fires)
I gotta be honest, I worked both the Camp Fire and Mendocino Mudslides (which also followed a high watershed fire). This honestly feels intentional. There seems to be a concerted effort to depopulate high end real estate and farmland to condense the population into a smaller footprint. For the camp fire, the paradise/concow population was essentially forced into Chico and still hasn't recovered.
Don't you think its interesting that we never saw fires like this before say 2012 or so. I never really heard of fires like this burning entire cities to the ground over night.
The Camp fire happened before a lot of the DEW weapons were on our radar (2018 I think). The thing that I always thought was very odd, was that the camp fire seemed to randomly burn down some places, while tinder rich brush areas with homes seemed to be untouched. I'm not a firefighter, I'm an engineer that gets pulled into various EMS ops depending on mission needs, so I just walked away from that thinking that fires could have randomized spread rather than being all-encompassing area effect burns. I now trust my gut when I see weird stuff in the field.
Disaster capitalism at it again... first the hurricanes this past fall, now wildfires in California. Anyone else think this is done intentionally? What is the end goal for them? (think: Maui fires)
I gotta be honest, I worked both the Camp Fire and Mendocino Mudslides (which also followed a high watershed fire). This honestly feels intentional. There seems to be a concerted effort to depopulate high end real estate and farmland to condense the population into a smaller footprint. For the camp fire, the paradise/concow population was essentially forced into Chico and still hasn't recovered.
Don't you think its interesting that we never saw fires like this before say 2012 or so. I never really heard of fires like this burning entire cities to the ground over night.
The Camp fire happened before a lot of the DEW weapons were on our radar (2018 I think). The thing that I always thought was very odd, was that the camp fire seemed to randomly burn down some places, while tinder rich brush areas with homes seemed to be untouched. I'm not a firefighter, I'm an engineer that gets pulled into various EMS ops depending on mission needs, so I just walked away from that thinking that fires could have randomized spread rather than being all-encompassing area effect burns. I now trust my gut when I see weird stuff in the field.