The “infrastructure with the fire hydrants” in place now to put out fires across Los Angeles is not sufficient to handle hundreds of homes engulfed in flames at once, said Chad Hanson, a forest and fire ecologist with the John Muir Project.
While the area has the assets to safely put out a fire in a single home and “maybe an apartment building or commercial structure,” the design cannot address a situation in which whole neighborhoods are on fire, he told CNN.
Meanwhile, most of the areas at serious risk of fires are not in forests but rather in communities that lack home hardening, defensible space pruning and evacuation planning, he said, addressing critics who say more tree removal is the solution to combatting wildfires.
“These are community safety issues not wildland management issues,” Hanson said.
“Instead of political opportunism,” he added, “we need to promote logging policies from certain members of Congress, put the partisan aside.”
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