The Summer
of 2012 has been a summer of devastating wildfires in the west. With warm
weather and low precipitation fires have been thriving. Not one state on the
west coast of the United States has gone untouched by a rash of burning forests,
and fields.
Washington
had been hit very hard. With one lightning storm lighting over 65 wildfires.
Dozens of homes have been burned over the last month. Smoke from the wildfires
in the eastern part of the state were drifting into the western part where
alarmed residents were calling 911.
In mid September
over two thousand fire fighters were assigned to the blazes across the state.
Between two fires a combined 92000 acres or roughly 143 square miles these
fires have been acting up more ever since the weather had dried up.
Thiers
really no good ways to try and prevent disasters like these from happening.
These fires aren’t getting set off by humans. It’s mother nature that’s setting
them off. Although climate change probably had an effect on the dry climate
during the summer. All you can do is use smart strategies to put out the fires
fast before they spread.
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