I've seen a few palms burn and they looked like they were dead and then some little green fronds started coming out of the top a few weeks later and in a couple of months they looked real good. They had black marks up the trunk but that was all you could tell.
I know, and you probably got the hard jobs like putting in a handline in terrain too steep for a bulldozer while we were trying to keep ourselves occupied.
I think that attitude that he wanted to present was; don't get yourself hurt or killed or get any equipment damaged because it isn't your job to save their house at any cost they took on this risk when they built in the forest and these houses in the wildland complicate the fire suppression...
This whole management of wildland areas is a huge problem. My Dad tells me that before WWII there used to be small fires burning all summer because no one had the resources to do anything about it. Since WWII we have allocated the resources to putting out the small fires and as result we have...
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