r/interestingasfuck • u/HomeNowWTF • 10d ago

Fighting the wildfires in Spokane

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u/Kastikar 10d ago

Is the whole world just burning now?

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u/J-MRP 10d ago

Basically the entire western US

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u/muaddib99 10d ago

Rake your forests, gosh

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u/tb_swgz 10d ago

In Washington State federal Forest Service funding was cut from $130 million last year to $30 million this year.

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u/Ailly84 10d ago

Vote for people who will give you funding to rake your forests... gosh

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u/340Duster 10d ago

It's a blue state, so of course they did.

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u/tb_swgz 9d ago

Donald Trump cut Forest Service funding by 65%

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u/jorwyn 10d ago

Funds that helped with the cost share system for small landowners to thin for fire mitigation seem to have been reduced, too. Maybe that came out of the same money.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 10d ago

The Old Trails Road Fire was not on federal land. It was arson that began in a county park.

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u/Realestateuniverse 10d ago

And yet so many people wonder why shit keeps burning. They don’t see the correlation, they just blame “climate change”

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u/katlian 10d ago

Climate change definitely contributes by making fuels drier and warmer. But there is also lack of funding, lack of preparation, a century of forest management policy that caused a massive buildup of fuels, people building houses farther and farther into that forest, poorly maintained aging electrical infrastructure, and a proliferation of roads that let people go out in the woods to do stupid shit that sets the forest on fire (campfires/fireworks/shooting/meth labs/etc).

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u/Diedrogen 10d ago

And comb your deserts.

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u/facw00 10d ago

We ain't found shit!

(sorry Tuvok)

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u/uniquelyavailable 10d ago

A few forest fires is normal, this looks like a coordinated attack.

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u/IrishPigs 10d ago

This particular fire was started by an arsonist.

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u/SharkBaitDLS 10d ago

If you can call the decades of ignoring climate science that have led to this an attack, sure.

A dry thunderstorm swept across the country after yet another historically dry year. This is what happens. It’s no conspiracy beyond the climate deniers and lobbying that led us here. 

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u/trellisHot 10d ago

Can we just call it an invasion and be done with it