“More inept decision-making by the Forest Service who decided to try and ‘manage’ this fire and let it burn instead of suppression — during one of the worst droughts in recent history.”
Absolutely, but when the state’s second ranking official says the feds ineptly let it burn, he’s only showing his own shortcomings.
In fact, the Forest Service had 52 people on the scene within a day of the lightning strike that started it, and the intention was never to just “let it burn.”
If Cox didn’t know that when he spoke up, he could have.