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Originally Posted by FMROMMEL
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Simple combustion. I think they cover that in High School chemistry.
Fires are a fact of life in the western states, just as tornadoes, huricaines, and 15 feet of winter snow are a fact of life in other parts of the country. I don't think you can compare the loss of a home (which loss is usually covered by insurance) with the loss felt by the people of New Orleans, or even bigger, the Asian Tsunami. Whole cities didn't get destroyed, thousands of people didn't lose their lives, people aren't displaced permanently. Furthermore, actual property wasn't destroyed, people still have their land, just not their homes. You can rebuild a house, you can't rebuild a life, or reclaim land taken by the ocean or a volcanic eruption. You will see, in just a year or two many of those homes will be rebuilt, and people will have normalized their lives again.
One thing, at least these people are only worried about simple air polution. About 7 years ago there was a very large wild fire on the Hanford reservation in Washington State. My house was just 45 miles from that, we could smell the smoke, and people were seriously worried about all the nice radiation exposure we would get from that fire. My friends dad worked on one of the fire crews for that fire, and they had to wear exposure badges.