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The megafires of California - Coggle Diagram
The megafires of California
Wildfires become worse and worse
Area
West of USA
Hardest: Southern California
Reason
Drought
Housing expansion
Now
Becoming an increasing menace in the Western United States
Generally hotter, faster, and spread more erratically than in the past
Megafires
Also called 'siege fires"
Are the increasingly frequent blazes that burn 500.000 are or more - 10 times the size of the average forest fire of 20 years ago
Factors
Dry region
Having a significantly below normal precipitation in many recent years
Policy of the US Forest Service
Climate change
Fire seasons last longer than they were 20 years ago
Increased construction of home in wood areas
More residential housing is being built, providing fuel to make fires burn with greater intensity
Dilapidated equipment, old fire engines, and insufficient blueprints for fire safety
Not be able to communicate with other states adequately
Consequences
Scorched thousands of acres, burned thousands of homes and killed numerous people
Soloution + Improvement
State promises to provide more up-2-date engines, planes and helicopters to fight with fires
funding for firefingting has increased
invested in better command-and-control facilities as well as in the strategies to run the insaction