CA Fires: Why Now?
The areas that are burning in California have always been dry, but people have successfully lived there for years without having their houses burn down. Was it always just a matter of time, or did something change–and was that something terrorism or too much population growth?
As we reported yesterday, the FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda prisoner said he had planned to start a series of forest fires around the U.S., although he didn’t mention California specifically. Rose Davis, of the National Interagency Fire Center, says they didn’t act on the warning and many forest law enforcement officers had no idea the warning had even been issued. However, it’s doubtful they could have done much to prevent the fires, even if they had.
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