An international team of fire experts have concluded that it is time to stop fighting fires and instead develop strategies to live with fire. In many areas, fire management is difficult or impossible, and interferes with fire's key role in the ecosystem. Instead, we should develop zoning & building codes and evacuation protocols to allow people to live with fire, just as we now live with earthquake and tornado hazards.
The reality is that attempts to prevent fires outright in many regions have often resulted in severe disasters as vegetative biomass has built up to unprecedented levels resulting in record breaking fires. Fires, occurring with greater regularity would be smaller and less severe. In part, because we can control fires too an extent, we have approached fire management incorrectly on an ideological basis.
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