More than a month after it ignited near a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power station, the Dixie fire rages on
after the town of Paradise was decimated. PG&E had planned to bury the power line that might have started the Dixie fire as part of a safety campaign announced in the wake of the Camp fire, but work on the project hadn’t yet begun.
Authorities have also blamed a century of aggressive fire suppression for creating patches of forest that are overgrown with thick understories of dry brush and in some cases enabling invasive species to move into areas where more frequent, low-intensity fires would once have kept them out. “And yet there are some critical positions that we’re unable to fill as frequently as we’d like,” McKeague said. “That includes our division supervisors, our dozer operators, our hotshot crews and even some critical line medic positions that are responsible for any medical emergencies for our firefighters.”
Although there have been no specific actions firefighters were unable to complete due to the personnel shortages, they’ve at times found themselves with not as much coverage on certain areas of the fire as they’d like, McKeague said.“With a fire this big and this active, we certainly would be putting any and all of those additional resources to use, if they were available,” he said.
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