Costs of big wildfire season hurting some states

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS and JEFF BARNARD

MANTON, Calif. (AP) - A huge wildfire in California is just the latest destructive blaze to stretch resources across the West during a fire season that has been one of the worst in years.

The fires have left some states with thin budgets to scramble to get people, planes, bulldozers and other tools on fire lines to beat back the flames.

And that's with about a third of the annual wildfire season remaining.

According to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, the nation as of Wednesday had seen 42,927 wildfires this year, which burned just over 7 million acres.

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The charred remains of an outbuilding destroyed by the Ponderosa fire are seen near Manton, Calif., Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. More than 1,400 fire fighters are battling the fire that has destroyed seven homes, burned 23 square miles. The fire that started Saturday is just 5 percent contained. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

[neverforget]

1. Tax cuts will put the fires out.

[kestrel91316]

2. If we just eliminate corporate regulations and taxes on the 1%

this will all take care of itself. Let unfettered free market capitalism do its thing and wildfires will cease to be a problem.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Yep, just heard that Gov. Fallin got some of that awful federal money for Oklahoma.