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Hopefully there's going to be a post-crisis review, and I'm sure that -- as always -- there will be lessons to be learned. Folks, please give that process a chance to work.
In the mean time, please consider:
- the rules about spotters are there for a reason. Doing water drops on wildfires is DANGEROUS. Doing it in the rugged hill country of east San Diego county is even more dangerous. These are dangerous places to be flying near treetop level even when they AREN'T on fire. To paraphrase Han Solo, it ain't like dusting crops.
- Half of San Diego county burned. Something on the order of a million people evacuated and relocated in the space of 36 to 48 hours. Hundreds of thousands of homes threatened. With all that going on, they lost seven dead and 1500 houses.
It's possibly -- just barely -- that a few things went right here.
J,
grateful to the men and women who stopped a fire two miles from my 84 year old Dad's house
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