Climate Change and Wildfires: The New Western Travesty

As my wife Chelsea 당진콜걸 and I drove through Arizona on our annual 마산출장샵 pilgrimage from California to Montana, 태안출장안마 orange smoke billowed along the 중랑구출장서비스 darkened horizon, signals of hearts shattered and landscapes scorched. 충주오피걸 Days earlier nineteen hotshot 영동일본인콜걸샵 firefighters died together 서울출장업소 as they battled the intense blazes near the mountain town of Yarnell. It was the most lethal wildfire America had witnessed in 80 years.
The Yarnell flames were so erratic and intense the team became suddenly trapped, and despite each of the men deploying their individual fire shelters, all fighting the flames that day perished.
The lone survivor was out fetching a truck for his crew, only to return to the gruesome scene. It was the single deadliest incident for firefighters since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Fires like the one that charred the small Yarnell community are only growing in size and ferocity in the West. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, the number of wildfires every year in the U.S. has remained relatively steady, but their size has increased dramatically. In 1987, a little over 2.4 million acres burned across the country whereas 2012 saw over 9.3 million acres go up in flames.
That’s more than the size of Rhode Island and Maryland combined and it’s a trend many see as only increasing as more droughts plague Western states and climate change continues to rear its ugly head