California's largest wildland fire started by hammer sparks

[onetimemanytime]

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/northamerica/top-stories/californias-largest-wildland-fire-started-by-hammer-sparks/ar-AACvNwX

[kwhitefoot]

If the risk of this happening frequently is high then people could be encouraged to us hammers with non-ferrous striking surfaces. See https://remcoproducts.com/the-differences-between-non-sparki...

[jsiepkes → kwhitefoot]

I think creating a spark free state is going to be a hard thing. This needs another kind of solution. Just like a single pin sized hole shouldn't sink a cruise ship a single spark shouldn't be able to burn down half a state.