Firefighters fear disaster ahead as heat transforms landscape: ‘The driest I’ve ever seen’ [Los Angeles Times :: BC-CALIF-WILDFIRES-FIREFIGHTERFEARS:LA]
LOS ANGELES – At Oak Flat Fire Station in the Angeles National Forest, veteran firefighters are already getting a bad feeling about this year.
There has been so little rain, and rising temperatures caused by climate change have made the landscape drier than they’ve ever seen ready to combust with the smallest spark.
They’ve watched the rugged mountains of the forest around the Castaic station change before their eyes, from a place of seasons to a place that seems like it is in perpetual summer. And with homes encroaching farther into the terrain each year, there are more people in harm’s way.
Southern California firefighters confront changing landscape
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Murry endured racism in Clermont as a youth before leaving for college, then the Air Force.
The son of sharecroppers, Murry earned 5 degrees, including a master s.
Murry lost 2 races for Clermont City Council before winning in a bid for mayor.
CLERMONT As Tim Murry looked across Lake Minneola, he saw how far he has come.
It was 2018, and Murry had organized a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. The scheduled speaker called in sick, leaving Murry as the emergency fill-in. As he waited to speak, Murry s mind raced back to a more divided time in his hometown s history. Wow, I’m here to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death, and I’m standing up on the stage in waterfront park in the city of Clermont on a beach that I wasn’t even allowed to swim in, Murry recalled.