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The media — and social media — insist that this year's fires in California and Oregon are a product of climate change. Well Glenn has news for all these so-called "protectors" of the truth. Even better, he has the actual DOCUMENTS to prove otherwise! Here are the arrest records for multiple suspected ARSONISTS — and at least one is a known BLM activist, dating back to Ferguson. So what's really going on? It's up to you to always question what you're being told, do your research, and find the truth. WATCH more Glenn Beck:
A video released by the US Forest Service shows the moment an off-duty border patrol officer in Arizona shoots a makeshift target with the words "Boy" and "Girl" written on it and it explodes in an open field, revealing a plume of blue smoke and sparking a massive wildfire, in a gender reveal party gone awry.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Doctor Smith
Most of the fires were started by lightening. Yes, some fires were started by arsonists. One was started by a gender reveal party gone bad.
Sometimes people start fire on purpose, sometime they start fires by accident. Sometimes nature starts fires.
But, there is no doubt that years of drought and hotter and longer dry seasons make fires worse. Next will come the rains, the flooding and the mud slides.
originally posted by: Nivhk
a reply to: Sookiechacha
And sometimes people start fires to hurt people.
Professionals in forensic psychiatry, criminal and fire investigation have developed classifications related to the motives behind fire-setting.
Excitement:
Vandalism
Revenge
Crime Concealment
Profit
Extremist/Terrorist
Arson is responsible for approximately 25% of all fires; more than 500,000 arson fires occur each year. Arson is the most expensive crime in America, costing more than $2 billion a year in property loss. The federal Anti-Arson Act of 1982 established arson as a violent crime. Arson claims over 700 lives annually.
The vast majority of wildfires in the United States are ignited by human sources — power lines, cigarette butts, machinery, or, in the case of one infamous recent fire, a gender reveal stunt. But a strange dry lightning storm near the San Francisco Bay Area in August led to more than 11,000 lightning strikes and triggered more than 300 fires in its wake. The causes of many other fires across the region are still being investigated.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Doctor Smith
Most of the fires were started by lightening. Yes, some fires were started by arsonists. One was started by a gender reveal party gone bad.
Sometimes people start fire on purpose, sometime they start fires by accident. Sometimes nature starts fires.
But, there is no doubt that years of drought and hotter and longer dry seasons make fires worse. Next will come the rains, the flooding and the mud slides.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Observationalist
53% of California's wild fires this year were on Federal land. Trump's land. Only 3% were on California State land.
The federal government owns 45.8 percent of California’s land, while 4 percent is owned by the state and 51 percent is privately owned. CAL FIRE manages both state and private land. Part of the reason it is so difficult to manage California forests is the bureaucratic milieu. The Forest Service manages 193 million acres of land, has 28,000 employees, and has an annual outlay of $7 billion a year, according to a 2017 Analytical Perspective from the budget of the U.S. government.
Prescribed burns keep forests healthy by burning up the underbrush that accumulates on the forest floor and by thinning trees. Yet for decades the Forest Service has suppressed most fires. According to a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection executive summary: “Land and fire management have in many cases increased fire hazard. In some shrub types, fire suppression appears to have shifted the fire regime away from more, smaller fires toward fewer, larger fire.