California's icons could make fire season even worse.
. Even scarier, EFD says flaming palm fronds can detach and fly long distances in the wind, potentially igniting other vegetation or structures.
"A lot of times they start because electric wires are crossing through the fronds, and of course what happens is a lot of these trees don't get pruned so there's lots of dry vegetation that will spark a fire," Captain Milton Urquilla of the Los Angeles Fire Department told Bloomberg."And on the Fourth of July, with the illegal rockets that people use, that's another avenue for fire to spread.
Nicholas Prange of the Los Angeles Fire Department says that structure fires, trash fires, car fires and vegetation fires near the base of a tree – especially a dying one – can also make them burn rapidly. However, he says that some of these accounts of"exploding" palm trees are hyperbolic."'Burst into flames' may be too strong a description for how a tree catches fire, as we are not aware of them spontaneously combusting," he iterated.
A document from EFD says that the accumulation of dead palm fronds creates a “skirt” of brown thatch that should be removed each year along with fibrous tissue that needs to be “skinned.” They advise people to be especially wary of palm trees within 100 feet of any structure or 30 feet of a driveway or roadway. More concerning, though, is that Science outlet
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