Lie September 15, 2020 · Interview · Environment
“You have forests all over the world. You don't have fires like you do in California, you know. In Europe, they have forest cities. You look at -- you look at countries -- Austria. You look at so many countries, they live in the forest. They're considered forest cities -- so many of them. And they don't have fires like this and they have more explosive trees. They have trees that will catch easier. But they maintain their fire. They have an expression, they thin the fuel. The fuel is what's on the ground -- the leaves. The trees that fall, they're dry. They're like -- they're like a matchstick, you know, after 18 months. If they're on the ground longer than 18 months, they're very explosive. And they have to get rid of that stuff and they have to manage their -- they have to manage their fires.”
- Said
- September 15, 2020
- Where
- Interview
- Verdict
- Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
- Topic
- Environment
- Repeated
- 29 times in the Post’s database
- Source
- Washington Post claims database (claim ID 24183)