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They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2531" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen" target="_blank"><strong>They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen? - Pro Publica</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad. </strong></p><p></p><p>What a week. Rough for all Californians. Exhausting for the firefighters on the front lines. Heart-shattering for those who lost homes and loved ones. But a special “Truman Show” kind of hell for the cadre of men and women who’ve not just watched California burn, fire ax in hand, for the past two or three or five decades, but who’ve also fully understood the fire policy that created the landscape that is now up in flames.</p><p></p><p>“What’s it like?” Tim Ingalsbee repeated back to me, wearily, when I asked him what it was like to watch California this past week. In 1980, Ingalsbee started working as a wildland firefighter. In 1995, he earned a doctorate in environmental sociology. And in 2005, frustrated by the huge gap between what he was learning about fire management and seeing on the fire line, he started Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology. Since then FUSEE has been lobbying Congress, and trying to educate anybody who will listen, about the misguided fire policy that is leading to the megafires we are seeing today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2531, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen'][B]They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen? - Pro Publica[/B][/URL] [B] This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad. [/B] What a week. Rough for all Californians. Exhausting for the firefighters on the front lines. Heart-shattering for those who lost homes and loved ones. But a special “Truman Show” kind of hell for the cadre of men and women who’ve not just watched California burn, fire ax in hand, for the past two or three or five decades, but who’ve also fully understood the fire policy that created the landscape that is now up in flames. “What’s it like?” Tim Ingalsbee repeated back to me, wearily, when I asked him what it was like to watch California this past week. In 1980, Ingalsbee started working as a wildland firefighter. In 1995, he earned a doctorate in environmental sociology. And in 2005, frustrated by the huge gap between what he was learning about fire management and seeing on the fire line, he started Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology. Since then FUSEE has been lobbying Congress, and trying to educate anybody who will listen, about the misguided fire policy that is leading to the megafires we are seeing today. [/QUOTE]
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