Firestorms kill everything and everybody in a sudden blaze of unimaginable fury. We have a solution, but idiot Bush could not understand the solution and stopped controlled burns.
I have no idea if Bush's failure to learn even the simple rules of forest management killed 19 brave men in Arizona. I do know that controlled (or prescribed) burns are the solution to lowering the number of firestorms.
Firestorms happen when we try to stop all fire. Fire in the forest is necessary for the health of the forest. Without fire, the underbrush grows too tall and then becomes dry. Then, instead of a small fire, there is a huge fire that leaves a lunar landscape.
Do not even THINK that cutting down the brush can work. Although, for slow learners, I am certain that there are places where you can volunteer to cut brush. Anyway, cutting the brush and taking it away also takes away the nutrients that a healthy forest needs.
Controlled and prescribed burns will get out of control. Fire is tricky and wind is even trickier. But without controlled burns we will have firestorms that leave an entire forest devastated. No bears, no bunnies, no nothing.
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