I highly recommend watching the show United Shades of America season 7 episode 4 called California is Burning.
Fight fire with fire. It seems the US hasn’t been using this method as much as they probably should to create natural barriers where the fires would die out when they do get started. I remember Trump saying the forests aren’t being cleaned of the dry leaves etc, and the Democrats went crazy, but that part he wasn’t really wrong about, it’s the Republicans ignoring climate change and trying to wholly blame other things that is the problem, but Democrats on TV who are in our face need to look at the whole situation too. It all matters. Climate change, how we build communities, and that we aren’t proactive enough regarding fire disasters.
I can’t tell you how many idiots set off their own July 4th fireworks when their town is under a warning!
I think we need to build houses with materials that don’t burn easily and protect residential areas as best we can so fires move around housing, but leave the housing standing. It will never be perfect.
The latest on Maui I am sure there will be a review done by HI officials, and it is a wake up call for the entire country to think through fire prevention policy and emergency response. I heard maybe 1,000 people are missing? Many were children. Is that correct?