The overall incident map is here: http://www.inciweb.org/incident/map/3461/4/
The Yarnell fire and the Fire crew's deaths were a truly man made problem. Viewing the Glen llah subdivision, surrounded by a dry, rocky landscape, the vegetation is immediately against the houses, the entire area easily seen as firetrap in any fast moving fire. A better name would be community based manslaughter, as these pictures show: http://goo.gl/maps/cqC2S.
The late Roger Kennedy, is his book "Wildfire and Americans"clearly explained the problem than I could ever hope to.
The focus, most likely, will be on "safety errors" and "failures to follow protocol", rather than the underlying, fundamental question of " why is this community here?" and "what were its zoning requirements?", if any. Last, and never asked, of course, is "why were these people out fighting that fire in the first place?", other than to defend the undependable and get paid the relatively small amount they do.
The headlines already announce the tired shibboleth of "Community Mourns (add victim name here), but this case is an obvious absurdity. The place is in a firetrap, and the subdivision is a firetrap's firetrap. That is the real tragedy. These people were killed for no reason other than stupidity and development greed.
The Yarnell fire and the Fire crew's deaths were a truly man made problem. Viewing the Glen llah subdivision, surrounded by a dry, rocky landscape, the vegetation is immediately against the houses, the entire area easily seen as firetrap in any fast moving fire. A better name would be community based manslaughter, as these pictures show: http://goo.gl/maps/cqC2S.
The late Roger Kennedy, is his book "Wildfire and Americans"clearly explained the problem than I could ever hope to.
The focus, most likely, will be on "safety errors" and "failures to follow protocol", rather than the underlying, fundamental question of " why is this community here?" and "what were its zoning requirements?", if any. Last, and never asked, of course, is "why were these people out fighting that fire in the first place?", other than to defend the undependable and get paid the relatively small amount they do.
The headlines already announce the tired shibboleth of "Community Mourns (add victim name here), but this case is an obvious absurdity. The place is in a firetrap, and the subdivision is a firetrap's firetrap. That is the real tragedy. These people were killed for no reason other than stupidity and development greed.
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