Letter: Spend on fire defenses, not climate change

Jan 22, 2025

A commonality between the 2023 Lahaina wildfires and the L.A. wildfires is high winds. You can’t do anything about winds, but you can do something about the fires. Dry brush contributed to both fires. Lack of water, equipment and manpower contributed to the failure to stop the fires. Lahaina and L.A. were possibly beyond control, but in both cases there was poor management.