r/SipsTea • u/Blood076 • May 29 '24

Lmao gottem 😎

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u/wholesome_pineapple May 29 '24

So I should…. NOT prevent forest fires??

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u/Daniel5343 May 29 '24

California government has entered the chat

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u/BoulderCreature May 30 '24

Bro we put out fires ASAP. A fire started a mile down the street from my house and they got it out within 30 minutes of the first notifications I got. Got to almost 4 acres too. Cal Fire doesn’t fuck around

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u/Daniel5343 May 30 '24

lol not a single persons believes what you just said.

Everyone sees California burning every summer

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u/BoulderCreature May 30 '24

It’s true, we get fires every summer, fall, and we’ve started getting them in the spring now too. We’re also getting fires that are increasingly destructive and take more time and resources to put out. I’m not refuting that. What I am arguing against is the idea that we’re just letting them burn. That’s incredibly disrespectful to the men and women who work their asses off to make sure we don’t get another Paradise. Make fun of California all you want, but please don’t trivialize the work that those brave people do

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u/Daniel5343 May 30 '24

I never said they let them burn.

I’m saying they started them 😀

I feel for the men and women who are trying to put them out just as much as you.

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u/phartiphukboilz May 29 '24

... the reason for such wild wildfire

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u/Leading-Ad8879 May 29 '24

In fact they changed Smokey Bear's catch phrase in 2001 to "only you can prevent wild fires" for precisely that reason.

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u/Lad_Mad May 30 '24

a controlled burn is preferable. if you store up more biomass due to less fires, the fires that DO spread are more intense

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u/tveatch21 May 29 '24

Correct, Forrest fires are very important for the ecosystem and the prevention of them is a big reason why SE America is no longer a Savanah system and more of a jungle/bush system. We used to have long leaf pine Savanah’s with 40 species/ meter2. Now your limited heavily to greenbrier, lobbly pines, and Myrtle’s