Soĺ Cal fires
We just have some miscommunication. We had community defense projects in EVERY single neighborhood and town that butts up against the Cleveland National Forest. We got it done in SoCal.The Cleveland boasts proudly about having the fewest number of fires that needed the BDF OR the Angelas NF for mutual aid. We got the stops. It can be done.
You could have paved a 6 lane highway around Pacific Palisades and it would't have made a lick of difference in those winds. Again, it roared right over the PCH like it wasn't there.
Half the Cleveland is
actual desert, and compared the Angeles the exposure to homes is
exponentially lower. That's a whole different ball game. The fire danger TODAY in the Cleveland is "moderate", that should tell you something. Again, you should know enough about local influences, fuel types and neighborhood interface to know that comparing the Cleveland National Forest to Pacific Palisades yesterday isn't a legitimate comparison on any level. Despite being geographically close, the methods that work for fuels and structure protection in the Cleveland aren't completely applicable to Pacific Palisades. That's why it's such a joke when people come out after these fires and say things like "fuel management" like it means the same thing all the time, when the reality is that it's different from one side of the ridge to the next, from one fuel type to another, and population density absolutely limits what can be done without making it an "environmental" issue at all.
You could have had the same destruction in Pacific Palisades without it starting in the wildland at all, a single structure fire could have taken out entire neighborhoods. Most of those houses lost yesterday weren't burned down by embers from the wildland, they were burned down by embers from their neighbors house.
Let's stop politicizing this, because so far none of the suggestions have ANY merit at all for the areas most of those fires are burning in.