Our very own wildfire hazards

Firefighters put out a recent brush fire in the Highbridge Park section of  northwest Manhattan.

Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

How weird it has seemed to watch planes drop water and other fire retardants on  big brush and woods fires in New England and other parts of the Northeast the past few weeks, recalling California.

We’ll be seeing more dramatic  cycles of floods, droughts and fires.

Scientists see man-caused global warming  as behind  the  extreme shifts between wet and dry periods we’ve been experiencing. This means bursts of rapidly growing thick vegetation, which then dries out in droughts, providing fuel for fires of the sort that Northeast has experienced during the past few months.

Even climate-change deniers might decide soon not to live in fire-prone areas around here.

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But this fall’s weather has been so golden!

I wish you the best for Thanksgiving, including that you don’t have to travel.