The vegetation in the hills all throughout the Bay Area was already incredibly parched before the heat wave over the past week dried them out more, further increasing fire risk.
Heat wave further dries parched landscape.KPIX 5 met Talabi after a hike at the Rancho San Antonio Preserve, which he says is drier than he's ever seen it before.Robert Culbertson, a battalion chief with San Jose Fire, says the heat wave increased fire danger by further drying out the vegetation, what some experts are calling a"flash-drying effect." As a result, he says fires that do spark up could be harder to fight.
The extreme heat and extreme drying of vegetation helped accelerate the Mosquito Fire burning in the Tahoe National Forest,"It definitely worries me, for sure," he said."Maybe not in this very spot, but around us. You know how the fire goes – it doesn't necessarily have to start where you are. It can start from maybe half a mile, a mile away, and then quickly catches up."
"Just to ease up the dryness a little bit," he said."I certainly hope this coming fall and winter we can compensate for it."
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