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Anatomy of a firestorm: 180 injured, hundreds of homes in ruins, 33,000 dunams of parkland burned
2016-11-27
Long. It's been a busy week, with lots of unexpected teamwork.
[IsraelTimes] At least 35, mostly Paleostinians, locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud! *
 for arson or incitement; finance minister approves aid, promises to stand by those affected ’even after the smoke clears’.
* I was going to change that to Avi, but then I remembered all those Arabs who've signed up to become Israeli police, so there will be Mahmoud the policeman enforcing the laws of the only Jewish nation. Truly this is an age of miracles!
The wildfires that have raged across Israel over five days have left at least 133 people injured, rendered hundreds of homes unlivable and consumed tens of thousands of dunams of protected parks and nature reserves.
The Times of Israel has more about some of those arrested here and photos of the week's adventures here.
Posted by:trailing wife

#11  Translation: Your "target" would likely end up unscathed, while its political opposite would end up as the target.

Something to think about - if you can think.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-11-27 21:48  

#10  See: Cajon Pass
Posted by: Frank G   2016-11-27 16:37  

#9  As Pappy says - the Santa Ana winds aren't totally predictable. Where they are, the dry vegetation/fuel's already been burnt.
Posted by: Frank G   2016-11-27 16:36  

#8  Then Thank God for that!
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2016-11-27 16:22  

#7  Problem is that the winds aren't as as predictable as one is led to believe.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-11-27 11:46  

#6  Santa Ana winds as weapon against the coastal elites in San Berdoo and LA? But more realistically and more troubling is that wide open border to the south. An invitation to ISIS and others.

Scary thought with the right weather pattern, what a knowledgeable wilderness fire analyst and few dozen coordinated people could do with nothing more than a smart phone, a bag of cotton balls, a can of charcoal starter and a lighter. With typical online maps that have terrain, winds and fire potentials noted they could plan and execute a firestorm larger than any seen to date. Dresden comes to mind.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2016-11-27 11:14  

#5  ...don't want to give the people in the back counties of CA any ideas about the coasties when the shooting starts.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-11-27 10:44  

#4  US Press? Too busy kissing Castro's rotting ass.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2016-11-27 10:36  

#3  after the 2010 fires, the govt of Israel promised to implement more wide firebreaks, preposition fire retardant and other steps.

I wonder if these were done
Posted by: lord garth   2016-11-27 08:48  

#2  Here's a link to an article about the supertanker plane that I'm glad helped out in Israel.

I don't know if this is related to the Evergreen supertanker that was sent over from Oregon last time around in 2010. I thought it was scrapped because it wasn't economically viable, but here it is again in one form or another.
Posted by: gorb   2016-11-27 01:48  

#1  at about 4 dunams/acre, that's almost 13 square miles.
Posted by: gorb   2016-11-27 01:40  

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