I hope as a country we’re better prepared next year than we were this year passed with record Canadian wildfires. Based on weather patterns (e.g., mild winter, many fires still blazing), I think we’ll have just as bad of a year of forest fires this summer unfortunately. I think we need to a culture change to act as if we’re in drought conditions going forward. There needs to be more public education about fire safety, there might be a way to improve reporting (like a hotline the person in this news story could have called if/when they realized things were out of control), and I think we need a lot more actual firefighting assets. I think it might make sense to proactively re-allocate military resources to forest firefighting, perhaps as a pilot project this spring
Dang. The fire got close to my family’s homes. 22 y/o probably won’t get max sentence but this will probably mess up his career aspects.
Max sentence is only 6 months in jail, which doesn’t seem like a lot for the amount of damage caused and the importance of keeping others from doing the same in the future.
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Well, as far as I can determine from the article this wasn’t a deliberate attempt like the guy in Quebec. Every year some amount of forest fires are started by some asshole who didn’t do a proper job of putting their fire out or throwing a lit cigarette butt into dry brush or something like that. Based on the charges I’m thinking this is one of those cases.
Yeah that’s my bad, I was still waking up and misunderstood. Tried to delete my post but Eternity isn’t cooperating… So everyone just ignore my last comment, please!
Doesn’t seem like this one was deliberate based on the charges, but it was on private land which is interesting. Starting a forest fire on accident is still stupid as fuck, but at least it isn’t straight up evil like doing it on purpose. He still deserves the book, though.
