The sad wildfires in spain made me wonder this, especially as climate change means there’ll be more fires. I know groups like disabled people and their families are slower to get out, causing risk. But is it more that the fire is too fast, or that some people just don’t leave fast enough?
Just wondering what could be done to reduce deaths.
In places like Oregon and Washington it’s more that there’s only a few roads or off road trails to get out.
Unlike places like Kansas or Nebraska where there’s a flat county road every mile that can take you any direction.
Traffic gets backed up near larger towns. Also you can’t really get a grasp of how close it is when you can’t see over the hills or trees
Apple TV did a movie called the lost bus. Based on the 2018 camp fire in California. Sort of gives you an idea of how it could happen. Good movie
Also the dollop podcast episode 572 and 573 did a history of pacific gas and electric company. If you want to hate a company more than anything and just rage the rest of the day. Listen to those two episodes
They are responsible for a lot of fires in the Pacific Northwest. And have faced minimum fines for casualties
Fucking PG&E. After they started 17 fires in Northern California in 2017 and had to pay few bucks and fix a few things, they got super salty and started shutting off all power during red flag days. The longest one was 15 days.
They had so many infrastructure problems that they knew needed fixed but they refused to spend the money to fix them all for more profit. The fines were a joke