I guess that's why the MSM dropped the coverage.
Fires never went out; it's a year-round thing now.
"Calif. crews work to rein in wildfire" by Associated Press | September 25, 2009
MOORPARK, Calif. - A fleet of helicopters made water drops as bulldozers carved firebreaks yesterday to stop a 25-square-mile wildfire burning through an agricultural region of Southern California.
That's not going to be good.
High heat and very low humidity kept fire danger high even though meteorologists said the dry Santa Ana winds that spread the flames through rural Ventura County were weakening.
The 16,400-acre blaze northwest of Los Angeles was 40 percent surrounded, and the effort to increase containment involved 21 helicopters, 21 bulldozers, 214 fire engines, and 1,800 firefighters. Eight air tankers were also available....
America's real heroes!
The fire erupted Tuesday north of the city of Moorpark and has spread west through hills, mountains, and agricultural lands, including avocado orchards. Two outbuildings have been destroyed, and 75 homes, along with oil production sites and electrical transmission lines, remained threatened....
That is why it gets a mention in the paper at all.
The fire began near an agricultural mulch pile, but the cause remained under investigation, authorities said. Elsewhere in Southern California, a 16-year-old male was arrested in a 475-acre wildfire Wednesday near Yucaipa in San Bernardino County. The fire was 60 percent contained.
Related: Seeking a Scapegoat For the California Fires
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For more see my California Fires labels.
SACRAMENTO - Despite industry objections and threats of lawsuits, California air regulators yesterday approved the nation’s first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries, and other polluting industries.
The money raised by the California Air Resources Board, which voted 9 to 0, is intended to pay for the bureaucratic expenses of carrying out the state’s 2006 global warming law, which requires greenhouse gas emissions statewide to be reduced by 25 percent over the next decade....
All together now, readers: PFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTT!!!
Gonna PAY for the BUREAUCRACY?
When we are going through a COOLING PHASE?
“It’s never pleasant to be in the position of asking consumers to pay,’’ chairwoman Mary Nichols said at the board’s meeting in the Southern California city of Diamond Bar. “While we are asking for investments here, these are investments being made as our economy begins to come back from the worst recession since the Great Depression.’’
They seem to be the only ones, yeah.
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HERE COMES your CARBON TAX, AmeriKa!!!!!!!
As CALIFORNY goes, so goes the NATION, right?
