It is something that affects others – not me – is a dangerous notion. I have done my own risk assessment on my home. I am approximately 200m north of an unmanaged wood. 70m is a field then “the other side of the road and their gardens”. So with a s-w wind I could be vulnerable. We have also had a limited amount of overnight rain so everything is not tinder, thebwoods are not much used either, so less likelyhood of portable bbqs or cigarette ends starting it. So I think I will be ok? That in itself is a dangerous thought! Even in cities the once lauded open spaces are vulnerable – I think I remember a incidence last year where a couple of houses were burnt,
Only a tiny percent of fires are started by lightning, most are started accidentally, or maliciously by human beings with small brains. However we are now building more houses in potentially vulnerable areas, the fires in California demonstrated that the fires do not respect wealth and power! Education would seem to be essential (including the deaths by drowning in warm weather) – but here the government has a problem. Many people have no access to the BBC, a traditional source of, now amusing, educational warnings. Schools are basically the last chance to educate the whole population. This situation is made worse by the impacts of Reform, Badenoch’s tories and the other lot, basically research shows that wildfires are likely to increase in danger and become 10X more common across Europe. Stop bleating on about Net Zero ad back it. Even if we stopped polluting the atmosphere tomorrow (I wish), it would take decades to return to a ‘normal’, the oceans (70% of earth’s surface) are warming and storing heat that will take eons to dissipate, And here I have a question – What if I am wrong and Badenoch, Trump, Farage and whoever are correct? Then I guess I would be happy with small benefits like cleaner air, despite the cost of Net Zero. If I am correct – not doing anything and drilling for more oil is treason and should be punishable by the sequistration of assets – both personal and corporate.