John: I'm just repeating what the experienced firemen said here in Sonoma County. Some people in Santa Rosa still haven't recovered from the Tubbs Fire in 2017.
Villa Capri, an assisted living facility, burnt to the ground. My father-in-law barely survived that one. The buildings around Villa Capri survived. The sprinklers didn't work at …
John: I'm just repeating what the experienced firemen said here in Sonoma County. Some people in Santa Rosa still haven't recovered from the Tubbs Fire in 2017.
Villa Capri, an assisted living facility, burnt to the ground. My father-in-law barely survived that one. The buildings around Villa Capri survived. The sprinklers didn't work at Villa Capri for some reason. The fire made no sense. The explanation for how the fire started made no sense. Where that freakishly strong eastern wind came from made no sense.
There still aren't any good explanations from government agencies about why the whole emergency system failed that night.
I can empathize, and I can make educated guesses towards all your unanswered questions. But not knowing all the pertinent facts, they would be just that.
I can tell you though, that in my 34 yrs of experience, (firefighter-battalion chief, hotshot superintendent, ops chief, fire behavior analyst, etc) I have seen those exact same situations, and all were easily explainable given the conditions. And no nefarious shady gov't shenanigans, or directed energy beams were involved.
I've seen house burn to the ground and leave all the vegetation untouched, hundreds if times, whole blocks destroyed, and for some reason a single house survives, a truck catch fire and have the starter short out and make it drive itself down the road, the possibilities are phenomenal.
Do I think there are people and groups setting fires when areas are vulnerable to extreme fire behavior to make the gov'ts irrational claims of a climate disaster more appealing, I do. But in this case of Lahaina, I think it is more likely just very very bad luck and an exceptionally overwhelmed fire department.
John: I'm sure there are explanations for all of it without the energy beams. If the government is starting fires on purpose we have a real problem.
Much of the Tubbs Fire, and other fires in CA, revolve around broken power lines due to a lack of maintenance by PG & E the power utility. Lots of crooks were running the company.
We also have these damned Eucalyptus trees from Australia. They go up like fire bombs in a fire. Maybe they have Eucalyptus in Lahaina as well.
What irks me the most about the Tubbs Fire is the failure of the emergency system. Sonoma County didn't fire proof the structures that held the emergency equipment for broadcasting. Neither did Comcast and other communication companies.
The information blackout was perhaps the most frightening part of the fire and the aftermath.
John: I'm just repeating what the experienced firemen said here in Sonoma County. Some people in Santa Rosa still haven't recovered from the Tubbs Fire in 2017.
Villa Capri, an assisted living facility, burnt to the ground. My father-in-law barely survived that one. The buildings around Villa Capri survived. The sprinklers didn't work at Villa Capri for some reason. The fire made no sense. The explanation for how the fire started made no sense. Where that freakishly strong eastern wind came from made no sense.
There still aren't any good explanations from government agencies about why the whole emergency system failed that night.
I can empathize, and I can make educated guesses towards all your unanswered questions. But not knowing all the pertinent facts, they would be just that.
I can tell you though, that in my 34 yrs of experience, (firefighter-battalion chief, hotshot superintendent, ops chief, fire behavior analyst, etc) I have seen those exact same situations, and all were easily explainable given the conditions. And no nefarious shady gov't shenanigans, or directed energy beams were involved.
I've seen house burn to the ground and leave all the vegetation untouched, hundreds if times, whole blocks destroyed, and for some reason a single house survives, a truck catch fire and have the starter short out and make it drive itself down the road, the possibilities are phenomenal.
Do I think there are people and groups setting fires when areas are vulnerable to extreme fire behavior to make the gov'ts irrational claims of a climate disaster more appealing, I do. But in this case of Lahaina, I think it is more likely just very very bad luck and an exceptionally overwhelmed fire department.
John: I'm sure there are explanations for all of it without the energy beams. If the government is starting fires on purpose we have a real problem.
Much of the Tubbs Fire, and other fires in CA, revolve around broken power lines due to a lack of maintenance by PG & E the power utility. Lots of crooks were running the company.
We also have these damned Eucalyptus trees from Australia. They go up like fire bombs in a fire. Maybe they have Eucalyptus in Lahaina as well.
What irks me the most about the Tubbs Fire is the failure of the emergency system. Sonoma County didn't fire proof the structures that held the emergency equipment for broadcasting. Neither did Comcast and other communication companies.
The information blackout was perhaps the most frightening part of the fire and the aftermath.