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Cal Fire has some Promising News |
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 |
Fire season can turn on a
dime in California
-- but despite dry conditions this year the state's fire agency, Cal Fire,
has some promising news, according to Capital Public Radio’s Jenny O'Mara. The
state's fire agency, known as Cal Fire, has more than 30 million acres it's
responsible for protecting. So far this year, despite dry conditions, spokesman
Mike Jarvis says, they've managed to keep the number of acres burned to around
82-thousand.
That's down from more than 200-thousand acres burned through the
same time period last year. Jarvis says a few things can explain for the
success -- an increase in staff by a full 700 firefighters, and more
firefighters on engines to attack fires aggressively right from the start. But
Jarvis notes that conditions, along with the numbers, can change. He says
they'll spend the next few months keeping an eye on the dry winds that come up
from Southern California that make
firefighting even tougher. A Capital Public Radio story
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