California's Wine Country Wildfires

Wildfires occur in the natural landscape, as forests. They tend to caught fire uncontrollably and last for a long period of time. These occurrences are affected by many factors and each factor stimulates the other. Global warming is one of the major factors that affect both the drought and the wildfire. Researchers predict for higher temperatures in the coming years due to a huge increase in greenhouse gas concentration in the air. As a result, forests will catch fire easily because there will be drier and warmer conditions which allow the trees to die. Therefore, there will be an increase in the rate of wildfires.

The fires, which were first recorded in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Nov. 23rd, spread over 15,000 acres and 2,000 structures, burning down single-family homes, Churches and other edifices in its wake as it strode through Sevier County, destroying two of the country’s most tourist-heavy towns and an amusement park. The rapid growth and ferocity of the fires, attributed to the drought in the area at the time, exceeded 80 miles per hour.

I choose this article because this is happening today. In this article the fire is spreading in San Simeon, California, (in the west area), Washington, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, Palm Springs, and San Francisco. All of these states were on fire either today or few days ago. In San Simeon about 16 homes were burned in the northwest. California’s wildfire destroyed 34 house and 14 other building. Washington, Washington, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, Palm Springs, and San Francisco house, land, and other building were burned down and many people tried to help to stop the wild fire.

Families were devastated when they were forced to leave their homes as wildfires began to take over. The Tennessee wildfires took the lives of 14 people, and destroyed over 2,400 homes and businesses, while creating $500 million in damages.

Even if commercial properties are prepared for any unforeseen disaster, it is possible that their preparations are not enough to quell the situation. The strength of fires, for example, is not easy to measure. And if establishments underestimate the power of the flames, their stores are going to be in serious trouble. Fires are disasters that can start small but escalate rather quickly. The flames can eat through materials like wood and cloth, which are typical products that are sold in establishments. Once the fire has engulfed a good portion of the store, commercial property owners are left with a mess of devastating proportions.

Although naturally encompasses such as season, weather, lightning, and etcetera may cause wildfires in our environment. However, National Park Service points out "humans cause 90 percent of Wildland fires in the United States as a result from campfires left unattended, the burning of debris, negligently discarded cigarettes and intentional acts of arson" (NPS). In this study, we will analyze the pattern, causes and find possible solutions for wildfire activities in the California. Foremost, it will begin with topic research of reliable sources such as the library, government websites, and the scholarly search engine. It’s not because of the experts’ reputation alone, but it’s for the study’s accuracy, credibility, to eliminate probable bias

Besides fires in the Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and Australia, the fire in Central of U.S. has killed at least four persons in March 2017 alone. According to the USA today, it announces "the fires have killed at least four people: Three in Texas and one in Kansas. The fires were burning in parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado, and warnings that fire conditions were ripe were issued for Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska..." ( USA Today, 2017). The wildfire is not just burning the land, property and damaged biodiversity, but it kills human lives at the same time too. With all the evidence, the climate change increases the frequency, and wilfires behavior of the entire world is the truth. Instead of denying the fact, the public should take

It was in 1910 that a fire known as “The Great Burn” blazed, ultimately claiming the lives of eighty-five people. It was following this that the Forest Service adopted the rules that any wildfire is to be put out, whether it was started via natural causes or not (Reilly 547). With the development of homes in these wooded areas and the extinguishing of all fires, the Eldorado National Forest has gradually grown an abundance of wildfire fuel, whether it be on the forest floor or in the crowns of the trees up above. On an annual basis, The United States Congress distributes each forest a yearly budget that the divides funds up into individual categories, and over the last few decades, the amount of money that goes towards the management of fires has been growing and growing, as wildfires annually grow in intensity and size (USDA Rising Cost of Fire Operation). When the budget is exhausted for fire management, where does the money come from to cover the extra costs? It is taken from the pre-allotted funds for fire prevention methods, taking away from opportunities to utilized prescribed burns and thinning of dense areas of trees, which in the long run would stop future fires from burning out of control at such fast rates! Just twenty years ago, the extinguishing of forest fires took up only 16% of the yearly

Writer for CNN, Eric Levenson, reports, “The Oklahoma Forestry Service told CNN the fires burned 400,000 acres, and prompted Gov. Mary Fallin to declare a state of emergency for 22 counties. Officials in four other states said that 400,000 acres were destroyed in Kansas, 325,000 in the Texas Panhandle and 30,000 in Colorado.” Thousands of wildfires happen every year and there are still no solutions for them. Wildfires are an issue all across the US. This problem could be reduced if humans would not leave fires unattended and stopped carelessly disregarding cigarettes.

John Bailey is a Professor of Silviculture and Fire Management at OSU. In his testimony, John describes wildfire as inevitable. He links the 2017 wildfire in Oregon and West to a combination of climate change and increasing amounts of fuel. Fuels have been increasing in terms of total quantity and connectivity between the many acres and as a result, wildfires burn in increasingly large areas. The Forest Service has been making mistakes by being unable to treat the increasing surface fuels previous years before the fires. John recommends active land management which would include

The main points that I learned this week is the fact that Wildfires develop when forest vegetation that is lacking moisture, elements and circulating air stimulate hot scorching gases derive from combusting activities in national parks. Natural environmental factors contribute to and stimulate wildfires in national parks these factors called fire triangles. Fire triangles aerated gases, natural occurring conductors and existing energy found in woodlands and they support ignites flames and start combustion activities in wildfires. National parks that have abundant natural supplies of gases, conductors and sources of energy are more likely to experience increased annual amounts of destructive wildfires. These type of environmental factors create

Wildfires burn three million acres of forest in the United States each year, killing wildlife trees and plants. Approxemately 90 percent of them are caused by human carelessness most of the rest were started by lightning. Some plants and trees have addapted remarkably good to the threat of fire. For example, the bark of redwoods may be up to a foot thick this makes the trees fire resistant. This one characteristic help ensure the redwoods

The wildfire I will talk about is the wildfire in California on 2007.Each wildfire season in California seems to top the last, but the 2007 wildfires are especially notable for leading to the largest evacuation in California history. In total, the fires displaced nearly 1 million people and razed at least 1,500 homes in San Diego area alone. The area covered by the various blazes was massive and more than 500,000 acres stretching from Santa Barbara County all the way to the U.S. Mexico

This year’s wildfire season is off to a blazing start. The United States had an early start to the season, with more than 29,000 wildfires burning more than 2.6 million acres of land. The driest season in 14 years has left the southern Amazon primed for heavy wildfire activity as well. The expected wildfire surge in the Amazon this summer is the result of El Niño, a warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean that had major impacts on weather across the United States the first half of 2016. While El Niño has officially ended, we’re still feeling effects through increased wildfire activity. In some parts of the U.S., the fire season is now on average 78 days longer than it was in 1970, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Similarly this

Fires are a huge topic especially here in California since we have a water drought which causes many land fields to be very dry. Summer is coming which means fire season, we have to be able to know how to control fires when they occur. Also we need to be conservative over our water, without it we can't fight the fires and control them.