Comment by reco98gg
1 day ago
I responded to this elsewhere on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065156
Basically they had no way to fight those fires at the time, as the article explains.
1 day ago
I responded to this elsewhere on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065156
Basically they had no way to fight those fires at the time, as the article explains.
[Answering here to @applepearlime bc limits of my green acct]
They do have firebreaks, paths for trucks to go in many places [1]. I've seen many.
But you could argue they're not wide enough to actually break fire. And when I see videos of how tall and wide the flames are, I have no idea how wide they should be... It's a managed forest though, definitely looked after because economics interests (wood, tourism).
[1] https://cnes.fr/geoimage/aquitaine-littoral-landais-massif-f...
> And when I see videos of how tall and wide the flames are, I have no idea how wide they should be...
Up to 40km, depending on the wind. Embers can travel a long way.
I can't say that I buy your argument.
Either way, firebreaks and green firebreaks seem like they could be a reasonable mitigation approach, whatever the overall causes.
Does anyone here know whether the Landes forest has good firebreaks? If not, does anyone here know why? I failed to find anything about it online.
I grew up there. I used to bike along stretches of firebreaks between plots. These firebreaks are nowhere nearly enough. Trees are young, pine needles spread everywhere, and ground is sandy.
The forest is a giant tinderbox.
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