California may be in the midst of a firestorm, but Democratic Gov. Newsom's state is not alone in needing to clean up its forests before more devastating fires occur.
Orange County Fire Department Chief Brian Fennessy knows this all too well and agrees: glenn beck The Glenn Beck Program said what happened in California was “completely predictable.”
“When I started in 1978, we usually had a few days' notice. You know, meteorology wasn't what it is today. We started getting notices about 10 days in advance, and seven days in advance. There's a lot of trust in your eyes, and after about four days you're pretty sure what's going to happen,” Fennessy tells Glenn.
“It's like we knew this was going to happen,” Glenn replies. “This is routine. You expect Santa Ana winds every year, you expect forest fires and wildfires in California every year.”
“The incompetence of cutting funding to fire agencies seems genuinely unprepared, but on top of that it seems incompetent to an almost criminal level. And the third part of this… The part is, as we see it, as I see it, there could be some actors after the main fire occurs,” he continues.
“We don't know for sure,” Fennessy replies. “I'll tell you this: I grew up in Altadena, one of the towns that was pretty devastated. So when you live near the hills, you get used to the Santa Ana winds. Masu.”
But Fennessy has heard similar stories as Glenn.
“I'm probably hearing the same thing as you, that the reservoir isn't as full as it should be. Certainly, there could be some drop in pressure as the system is put under pressure. But I've never heard of anything like that, but I've also never heard of no real pressure,” Fennessy said.
“I know and I've told people that in San Diego in 2003, there was one of the largest fires in the history of California at the time. “Because they were burned and we didn't know they existed,” he continues. “If we had known, we would have protected the pump house the same way we protect the house.”
Fennessy believes more can be done to prevent wildfires across the country than just water stations and pump houses.
“I've worked for both the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Agriculture, and let's face it,” Fennessy said. “Firefighters have done a great job over the decades of quickly suppressing fires, which is why they have spread so much and created such an unhealthy landscape.”
“We need to start bringing back beneficial fire to our landscapes. We need to solve this problem,” he continues. “We have to do something about this unhealthy forest.”
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