KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 5 October 2, 2014
There may be some pine interspersed in there. But those are mostly eucalyptus. Reporter and the trees that blanket the area couldnt be more flammable. Thousands of nonnative oilladen eucalyptus trees could act like fire torches if ignited. Its a very dry conditions like we have now and wind. Those things together with just the a cigarette butt could cause this thing to go up like a tinderbox. Reporter sal genito with uc berkeley says the university owns about a thousand acres in the hills. They and others have been waiting for years for fema to release funds to remove the invasive trees. But t...