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Tevai
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Date: October 30, 2019 05:46PM
In my opinion, the chance that these fires are being deliberately set is close to zero because of the enhanced investigations going on with each one, to determine precisely how each fire was initially sparked.
PG&E (one of the main power companies in California) is going through bankruptcy because of the last series of fires which happened in their area. They know for a fact, and have admitted, that some of those fires began because of mishaps with their own equipment.
The Getty fire began when a specific tree toppled, falling on power lines.
In normal (pre Climate Change) times, there would have been less fires numerically, and those which did spark would have been under control far faster.
In the last several years, though, the entire terrain has dried out to a far-beyond-normal extent. If ANYTHING sparks the abnormally-dry brush and trees, a tiny flame of matchstick size can spread virtually "instantly," becoming a huge, out of control, fire before the time required to get fire equipment there.
Add in the powerful effect of the seasonal Santa Ana/Diablo winds in the spreading of any "dry tinder" fire, and the result is what is happening right now.
We all agree that raking (or vacuuming! ;) ) the natural lands is absurd....but so is watering, too. Just having normal rain for two or three consecutive rainy seasons would have a tremendously positive effect on the number and severity of fires during our seasonal winds (which come every single year).
So far as how the fires are placed, my guess would be that they either have something to do with power line placement, or else the wind patterns in that particular area (which vary according to the terrain).
Even were I to accept your hypothesis, I don't see the "up" side in any of this. There is no money to be made by anyone I can see, and there are no otherwise restricted lands which are brimming with rare minerals or other commercial products underneath (something I grew up knowing something about).
If there was a conspiracy of some sort going on, it would have to be an international one--and I think the chances of this, operating in this particular way, via wildfires, are exceedingly minute.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/2019 05:54PM by Tevai.