Droughts Lead To Fires In California And The Causes Are Not All Natural

The recent fires in the forests of California have given a high damage toll and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection have released the damages assessed by their team. A count of 1,050 homes was recorded as being burnt down to cinders in the Lake Town. This high damage record makes the current wildfires, the third worst calamity in the entire country.

With 80% of the damage already assessed by the team, the total estimate of destruction wreaked by the two joint wildfires in the past two weeks has been severe. The total toll is estimated to be 1600 structures as the damages assessed only include large homes for now, which means that you can add barns, sheds and any number of outbuildings to the count, taking the toll to an all time high!

These deplorable circumstances are made even worse by the fact that there have been 3 fatalities in these Californian wildfires. One recent piece of news also shared that a suspicious body had been found in a charred vehicle, and speculation is adrift about how it got there. Many sources believe it to be a case of suicide, and it is nothing short of irony when hundreds were evacuated to save their lives, and one life was lost to nobody knows what reasons.

The troubling fact is that this is not the end to the property damage and loss of lives due to fires in the area. Another outbreak has already been reported in the Sierra Nevada foothills and evacuation is already underway there.

Droughts are thought to be the natural cause of these disasters, thus they are referred to as ‘natural disasters’. Yet there are many who have voiced their skepticism about these fires being natural. A group of experts explain that droughts are not the only cause for these destructive forest fires. These fires are actually man made. They are not a case of vandalism, but the genius of a man which has set fires to the rich flora of the region.

If the drought is the cause of the fires, what efforts have been made to address them? The man made water diversions are a cause for it, as the land is deprived of its natural sources. Another major factor is the environmental groups themselves.

While they give their allegiance to take all steps for the betterment of the environment, they have actually brought about the destruction to the land; by pressurizing the lawmakers to divert billion gallons of water, to the ocean and also by driving away the water from where it was needed the most, they have damaged the fabric of nature and now ironically, man has to suffer these manmade disasters.

Ironic is the fact that the environmental groups which are responsible for saving the earth are responsible for these wildfire disasters.