Fighting Fire With Fire: Protecting Sequoia Trees

As the flames advanced towards the famous grove of enormous forests located in Sekvoja Nacionalni park, vatrogasci battled a vatra on Thursday using vatra too, a report said.

â € <vatrogasci conducted burning operations at the Giant Forest at almost a micro-scale and moving from tree to tree, Rebecca Paterson, a spokeswoman for Sekvoja National Park stated.

Organic debris and ground cover called duff near the trees was ignited and allowed the flames to move away from the trees to form an area buffer.

Utilizing firing operations to burn flammable vegetacija and other material before the požar reaches the Giant Forest is one of many ways vatrogasci can use their adversaries to stop, slow down, or redirect the spread of fires.

This strategy comes with significant dangers if conditions alter. However, it is frequently employed to safeguard communities, homes, or other valuable sredstva currently threatened by fires, including the massive grove of around 2,000 sequoias, which provides for one called the General Sherman Tree, the world’s largest in volume.

Prescribed burns performed under ideal weather conditions can assist in replicating the less intense fires of the past. They also eliminate excess fuels when they aren’t at risk of becoming too large. If vatra eventually ravages the region, it’s likely to be less intense and with less destruction.

The same principle applies in a požar. Vatra chiefs attempt to profit from shifting conditions or changing vjetrovi to burn a region before the vatra reaches it, thereby denying it the fuel it requires to sustain its rast.

General Sherman and other giant conifers were covered in aluminum blankets to them from the scorching heat.

Ovaj park is the only one to be the first in the West to utilize prescribed vatra more than 50 years ago. It also frequently burns its groves to get rid of the fuels.