Originally posted by 4AMNTN
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The Camp fire near Chico up north of Sacramento is now the worst fire in CA history as far as damage, and probably lives lost when they are able to get in and find everybody still missing. The prolonged drought has turned CA into a literal tinderbox. We had one decent rainy season a couple of years ago, but it wasn't enough to turn the damage around. The fires will probably get worse before they get better. The Sierra Nevada range is loaded with dead pines up and down the length of it, with lots of small historic mining and resort towns, etc. sprinkled up and down the length of it. The foothills all along the base are just as dry. There's not enough money or access to the mountains to clear the millions and millions of dead trees. It's going to be bad like this for a long time to come, IMO.
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