{"id":134208,"date":"2025-01-16T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134208"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:33:13","slug":"local-paper-berkeley-county-is-one-of-the-fastest-growing-areas-in-sc-and-one-of-the-most-wildfire-prone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134208","title":{"rendered":"(Local paper) Berkeley County is one of the fastest-growing areas in SC, and one of the most wildfire-prone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As blazes raged across Los Angeles, Berkeley County officials were wrapping up a new plan that could help local residents and leaders deal with wildfires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They might need it soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berkeley is simultaneously one of the fastest-growing and most fire-susceptible counties in the state \u2014 a vulnerability that could grow in the near future as climate change\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/science\/science-explorer\/climate\/droughts-and-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spurs more severe droughts and drier conditions.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Us folks in the wildland business, we&#8217;ve been seeing climate change coming for a long time,&#8221; said Andy Johnson, the S.C. Forestry Commission&#8217;s fire prevention coordinator for the Coastal Plain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/rising-waters\/south-carolina-wildfire-berkeley-county\/article_daa9e632-cde4-11ef-9579-97662f459247.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Berkeley County is one of the fastest-growing areas in SC, and one of the most wildfire-prone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5WpzpEkPPv\">https:\/\/t.co\/5WpzpEkPPv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1878744368636416074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As blazes raged across Los Angeles, Berkeley County officials were wrapping up a new plan that could help local residents and leaders deal with wildfires. They might need it soon. Berkeley is simultaneously one of the fastest-growing and most fire-susceptible<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134208\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134212,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134208\/revisions\/134212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}