What can be done about the chaparral menace? It’s the primary fuel carrying the current socal fires. >not merchantable >grows quickly>can easily cause spot fires so dozer line buffers are ineffective >prescription controlled burns would need to happen every five years and require hundreds if not thousands of personnel to be effective
>>2798965seems like the primary fuel is now the homes and business of the WUI and surrounding burbs. if the wind was blowing east this would be just another fire
>>2798965>not merchantableremove merchantproblem solved
Build things out of rock and concreteLike Rome
>>2798965Well it's not the biome's fault that cities and municipalities keep letting people develop and build into it despite knowing the danger
>>2798965100' primary fire breaks around dwellings (nothing over 2' in height)200' secondary fire breaks: nothing over 8 feet tall, with no limbs under 6', and no trees within 8' of each other. (not much of an issue there)That's what we have to maintain in perpetuity here in OR for our house in F2 zoned land; and it seems pretty sensible.
>>2799109but with 80mph winds like they had in SoCal no fire break or defensible space would help that...
>>2799109Socal fires are not even remotely the same as PNW fires
>>2799114Well, you aren't going to get a house burning down if there's no combustible material over a certain height. Having sprinkler systems and fireproof/resistant roofing would have helped too.But ultimately they had really densely packed houses with trees and shrubbery for privacy/aesthetics.
>>2799109>100' primary fire breaks around dwellings (nothing over 2' in height)LMAO good luck enforcing this.
>>2799119>you aren't going to get a house burning down if there's no combustible material over a certain height.Ever? like never? cuz that seems a tad unrealistic. There is no stopping a firestorm in the face of extreme winds. dont be retarded.
>>2799133you contrarian faggot cunts are just insufferable.firebreaks don't work. got it.can we talk about hatchets now?
>>2798965Burn it downPasture it with goats to keep it as a low grassland
>>2799084/thread. The "solution" to the chaparral is to leave it the fuck alone, the LA valley is massive and mostly extremely low-density; just build there and keep the hills as wilderness so when a fire does break out you just have to contain the overall area and defend the valley.
>>2799159>firebreaks don't work.>insinuating I claimed that.You disingenous cunt. these fires started in the suburbs and were driven my 80mph winds causing spotting half mile away. a fire break would not (did not as there are breaks all thru the hills) have done shit. LA county has all sorts of defensible space regulations and codes. But huge fuel load from previous wet winters, very dry current conditions and extreme winds arent gonna be stopped.
