More than 90 percent of wildfires are human-caused, and the Fourth of July is the single most dangerous day of the year for starting one.The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is welcoming visitors for Independence Day, but fireworks and pyrotechnics stay prohibited on public lands – every forest, every campsite, every day, not just during fire season. California’s 18 national forests see a record number of visitors on the Fourth, and Pacific Southwest Region Director Jim Bacon put it plainly: leave the fireworks to the cities and local groups putting on official displays.
The Forest Service is getting nearly $500 million to help fight the wildfire crisis. Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the investment this week, aimed at expanding the agency’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy before catastrophic fires reach communities bordering national forest land.
Wildfire smoke doesn’t respect state lines. Smoke from a fire in the Sierra can shut down flights in Seattle.
CAL FIRE has an excellent resource for those of you who live anywhere near a wildfire likely area. Or an area where idiots will host gender reveal parties with by lighting off fireworks in dry brush (it’s a boy, by the way … and congratulations to that new kid whose parents will most likely be arrested, sued, and in debt for quite a while for the stupid act that sparked the El Dorado Fire in San Bernardino County. They should name the kid “Smokey” or “We’re Really Sorry”).
As if 2020 hasn’t given us enough gut-punches already, California is now entering wildfire season – a season that brings increasing danger and more and more property damage and loss of life every year thanks to the incompetence of California’s government and the environmental stupidity that idiotic groups like the Sierra Club call “activism.” Environmentalism is why our wildfires are getting more and more intense every year.