The green tops of brush filling the canyons and terrain throughout San Diego County is merely masking a potentially dangerous situation. Beneath the greenery, are dead stems and twigs — fuels long since dried out from prolonged periods without rain that have county fire officials and Cal Fire predicting this season to be an above normal fire season. “All the predictions are leading us to believe that it’s going to be an extremely active fire season,” Capt. Kendal Bortisser, a Cal Fire public information officer, said during a three-day wildfire training exercise that took place earlier this month.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:39:33 +0000