I haven't lived in a fire zone in years, but I grew up in Eastern Washington, and most of my family is still there, and my brother started fighting fire for the US Forest Service as a summer job in college and turned it into a career. Although these days he has a year-round non-fire job that he gets pulled off of repeatedly every summer to run fire crews.
I've since lived in very real risk of both tornadoes and hurricanes, but fire is still absolutely, hands down, my biggest natural disaster nightmare, and the one horrible news story I can never turn away from. But this, this is beyond horrible and into indefensible. If we can't find a way to stop the fires getting worse, than we owe it to ourselves to find a way to make them more survivable, with better systems of warnings and evacuations. Also, OMG buried power lines EVERYWHERE please!
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Date: 2018-11-16 02:54 am (UTC)I've since lived in very real risk of both tornadoes and hurricanes, but fire is still absolutely, hands down, my biggest natural disaster nightmare, and the one horrible news story I can never turn away from. But this, this is beyond horrible and into indefensible. If we can't find a way to stop the fires getting worse, than we owe it to ourselves to find a way to make them more survivable, with better systems of warnings and evacuations. Also, OMG buried power lines EVERYWHERE please!