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An even bigger threat is looming behind California’s fires (www.vox.com)
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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Sea-hags?

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

“Our traditional urban water infrastructure and supply was just largely not meant to fight fires like this,” Kearns said. “It was designed to put out a fire at a single house or a few structures, not thousands of houses during really high winds.”

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

Thanks, this is a critically important point, which obviously applies also to any cities throughout the world. So, climate change is about to bring large waves of destruction in coming decades.