Goats are the new “weapon” to help firefighters prevent wildfires in California

There is a “battalion” of employees to stop the fires in California, United States. They will work hard and will be of great help in minimizing the risk of fire spreading over thousands of acres.

They are neither humans nor robots. With the first they will be at hand. What is it about? The extra help that the fire brigade already has for forest fires, among other things, is provided by hundreds of goats.

What do goats do during forest fires?

The goats will consume “tons of weed,” explains Noticiero Univisión. This will be vital in this task, as the undergrowth, once dry, becomes the “perfect fuel” to keep fueling the flames, the television medium says.

In San Francisco, California, there is a company that rents out “professional goats” to fight fires. David Espino works there, who highlighted the teamwork these goats perform. The goats move with full skill on steep terrain, which facilitates processes.

But what’s really important, the chain of information described, is that “by eating the grass, they take 90% of the seed and this means the grass won’t grow back the same way the next year.”

In July 2022, El Universo reported how an “extreme heat wave” affected tens of millions of Americans, with record temperatures in the center and northeast and a wildfire in California.

And the year before, there was talk of an intense “heat dome” that “devastated the entire west coast of the United States and Canada, killing more than 500 people and sparking massive wildfires, with temperatures approaching 50 degrees.” .

“Some goats will die”

David, sparing in testifying, confessed that he tries not to get too attached to the goats… He knows that in this kind of contingency – forest fires – some will die.

It’s sad, he emphasized, the unity I seek in humanity I find in these goats.