It will take awareness and hard work to avoid a wildfire catastrophe in Alaska.
Look hard at those pictures of Lahaina. Look, and look again. Seek out videos as well. You see a wonderful, vibrant town that is no more. Completely gone. You see smoldering buildings, or what used to be buildings. You see ashes of memories that are now so totally toxic, it is doubtful Lahaina can ever be rebuilt or the land inhabited.No, no. I will stop pussyfooting around. This issue is critical. When you look at the remains of Lahaina, you don’t see whathappen here.
I guess not enough of us remember the McHugh Creek blaze of 2016 which firefighters battled with for a few days. Anchorage and Eagle River were severely threatened. The world could have just as easily woken up to pics of smoldering Fourth Avenue, a wiped out Dimond Boulevard or a destroyed Eagle River business district. The smoke in the Anchorage Bowl would not be pleasant or safe. You get the idea. If you don’t, you are sweeping the issue under the rug.
Many of these programs have been around for years. Yet most of us have little to no idea what they include. We leave the thinking and the planning to others. If Lahaina’s devastating fire showed us anything, it is that all of us need to get involved. This should be top priority. We need to step up communitywide education. We need to institute practice evacuation drills. And, as Yardeners, we need to clean up our own properties.
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