Park fire: California wildfire tears through 5,000 acres an hour
www.bbc.com
A vortex of ash and flames formed in the Park fire, which police say was sparked on purpose.
  • @NegativeInf
    29•1 month ago

    All this devastation so some fuckbag could light a car on fire and roll it into a gully.

    I’d say we need a new plague, but hell, the last one didn’t work. I welcome the asteroids. I beseech the gamma ray burst. Come on, vacuum decay.

    (I don’t actually, I just don’t know what to do, think, or say at this point that can accurately convey my level of disappointment with the average state of humanity)

    • @[email protected]English
      24•1 month ago

      On a more positive note, one party is having a great time:

      https://baynature.org/article/fire-chasing-beetles-make-appearance/

      Charcoal beetles behave at fires the way locusts behave in cornfields, or like humans at a football game: they congregate en masse, they eat a lot, and they find mates. The beetles enter a fire to mate while it’s still burning and once the flames have subsided, females lay eggs under the bark of burned trees. The larvae depend on the woods of freshly-killed trees because they cannot cope with the living tree’s chemical defenses. This after-fire niche provides a no-pressure environment nearly free of predators and defenses.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanophila_consputa

      Wildfires are part of California’s ecosystem, and some critters need 'em to survive.