Fire season is upon us in Los Angeles. Most of the news has done a really good job of freaking out people around the world so I thought I'd share some specifics, most of which is reported by the California Division of Forestry on their incident website and this information is updated frequently throughout the day.
First, here is a time-lapse video of what we're up against with Station Fire, positioned just north of Los Angeles in the foothills. As of this posting, the Station Fire is 5% contained. There's some debate as to whether these types of fire is good for the chaparral habitat or not. I'm no expert, but I'll try to synthesize what I have learned so far.
Some folks will argue that fire is good and fire suppression is bad. Fire suppression can lead to an overabundance of vegetation creating dangerous levels of fuels in California wildlands. While this may be true for some forestland (particularly in dry ponderosa forests in the southwest), it is not true for California chaparral.
The fires ablaze in the foothills just north of Los Angeles is bad fire, the kind that destroy the natural resources that we enjoy. So this fire is bad, plain and simple.
It does however create some pretty awesome sunsets.
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