“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.”
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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.
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