True, they don’t have the same kind of wind usually but their forests are immensely more flammable.
I’m not an expert but from everything I can find about this topic it seems like fire prevention absolutely could have avoided most of the houses that burned down.
It’s hard to compare with Finland and Sweden. They don’t face the same combinaison of climate and high-speed wind events which LA is suffering from.
Also, we affect the climate. So we can and should reduce our impact on climate AND do better fire prevention.
Fire prevention alone isn’t going to avoid large scale fires if the climate keep worsening like that.
True, they don’t have the same kind of wind usually but their forests are immensely more flammable.
I’m not an expert but from everything I can find about this topic it seems like fire prevention absolutely could have avoided most of the houses that burned down.
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Mud slides comes when you remove too many trees. You can remove a lot of shrubbery without increasing chances of mud slide.
That’s possible.
Also, AC could probably prevent all heat-related death. But using AC in all buildings on earth, all the time, is not a viable option.