Experts say controlled or prescribed burns are key to avoiding destructive wildfires.
It burned the edges, sent enough smoke in the air to potentially taint the grapes, then backed off and kept moving, eventually destroying 73 structures and damaging seven, many were million-dollar Sky Ranch homes.
A Cal Fire representative, though, said the residents of Sky Ranch shot the proposal down. Residents didn't want a controlled fire near their homes.In both the Carmel and River fires, few, if any, controlled burns had been done in the original footprints of the flames in the last 10 years, virtually ensuring that any fire that started in that area would have plenty of fuel to burn.
Even though Galante sold his property about a month before the Carmel Fire roared through it, he said, he still makes his wine from the grapes grown on that hillside. He thought a lot about what might have been, had the prescribed burn been allowed. He worries about the homeowners just up the hill who lost their houses to the flames."This is nature," Galante said. "Land comes back and it comes back beautifully.
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