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kripcat.eth
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Hazard Reduction Burns are a staple tool of fire management in Australia, usually over winter when burns can be kept cool, slow and controllable. It's an immense and complicated task since essentially all indigenous vegetation in the most populated region of Australia (South East) is pyrophytic. However we're running into an unfortunate problem where the number of days suitable to conduct hazard reduction burns is decreasing because of more frequent days winter days with higher temperatures and/or higher windspeeds as a consequence of Climate Change. Which puts environmental planners in a difficult spot because if you do a planned burn and it gets out of control, that's obviously not good. But if you don't do enough hazard reduction that's also not good and compounds year on year leading to catastrophic events occurring anyway. I expect this will be a worsening problem for all fire prone regions going forward.
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kripcat.eth
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Another developing problem is that the Northern and Southern hemisphere have historically had opposing fire seasons (our summer being your winter and vice versa). This has allowed a reciprocal arrangement to develop where our firefighters, aircraft and equipment pitch in during your fire season and yours in ours. However as we've just seen we've the LA fires occurring in winter, increasingly the fire season for both hemispheres is stretching beyond these historical windows and into cooler months because of Climate Change. These overlapping fire seasons will mean that fire services will need to scale in capacity, not just in response to the increased size, ferocity and frequency of wild fires, but also to account for capacity lost because friendly foreign fire services are busy managing their own fire season.
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Stuart
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