For five days now, California has been battling the latest rash of wildfires ~
Ventura, California (CNN)The thousands of men and women fighting Southern California’s largest wildfire made progress Friday thanks to weather that allowed more aircraft to help in the battle […]
Fire officials were still being cautious on this fifth day, when winds died down and more airplanes joined in dropping water on the blaze.
“With this break in the weather, we’ve made good progress, but that progress is limited to those areas that are safe to fly in,” said Todd Derum, the incident commander for Cal Fire.
Brown said that if the winds grow stronger, the flames could take off again because of the sheer volume of the fire, which is only 10% contained.
The Thomas Fire and five other blazes have scorched nearly 160,000 acres this week, officials said.
So am I the only one who keeps wondering how they’re getting started? And why is it so difficult to find answers to that question? (If you’ve heard anything about the cause(s) please let me know in the comment section. Thanks.)
Naturally, very dry and windy conditions facilitate a blaze once it gets going, but how does it get going?. Is it lightening? Arson? Spontaneous combustion?
While the fires are burning there’s usually plenty of news coverage, but there’s not much follow-up. We rarely learn how they originated do we? In fact if I had a more suspicious nature I might wonder if some of these blazes might be jihad-by-fire. Five years ago, the UK Daily Mail ran this story ~
Al Qaeda has called upon its followers to unleash massive forest fires upon the United States this summer.
Published in the latest edition of the notorious terror magazine, ‘Inspire’, are graphic instructions for the creation and ignition of ’ember bombs’
Detailed in the memorably titled, ‘It is of your Freedom to Ignite a Firebomb’, the magazine encourages any would-be terrorist to target Montana, because of the rapid population growth in its wooded areas.
It doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility that we have a few inspired Islamist arsonists in our midst taking advantage of extremely dry weather conditions to ignite their own personal firestorms. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time raging wildfires of an undetermined cause have claimed lives and thousands of acres.
Praying for the latest victims in California.
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Related:
God Bless Crew 61 (and all the CA firefighters!) ~ From the last round of wildfires, in October
“Hello California – God here…” ~ January ’14 fires
California Wildfires: President Trump Declares State of Emergency
Up-dated: 12-9-17
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On the other hand, maybe the fires were set by the greeniacs to advance their global climate change agenda ~
Ridiculous.
Southern California has a long history of wildfires. Deserts are rather arid after.
Will it be climate change when the dry spell ends? https://t.co/vmyKAgTCaT
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 9, 2017
