Editing Firebreak (section)

===Effectiveness===
[[File:Contrasts - fire.jpg|thumb|By comparing the burnt (right) and unburnt (left) sides of a dirt road in South Africa after a major veldfire (grassland fire) the effectiveness of the road in acting as a firebreak can be seen.]]
Depending on the environmental conditions, and the relative effectiveness of a given firebreak, firebreaks often have to be backed up with other firefighting efforts. Even then, it is still sometimes possible for fire to spread across a seemingly impenetrable divide. For example, during the [[Cedar Fire]] of 2003, strong [[Santa Ana winds]] had blown enough burning embers across a 10-lane section of [[Interstate 15]] to ignite the vegetation on the other side.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SIO15: Cedar Fire |url=https://geowiki.ucsd.edu/sio15/case-studies/cedar-fire03.html |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=geowiki.ucsd.edu}}</ref> During the [[Yellowstone fires of 1988|1988 fires]] in [[Yellowstone National Park]], hot embers managed to cross the [[Lewis Canyon]], a natural canyon up to a mile wide and 600 feet (180 m) deep.{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}} In Australia, firebreaks are less effective against eucalyptus forest fires, since intense fires in tinder-dry eucalyptus forest spread through flying embers, which can be carried by the winds to trigger new blazes several kilometres away.<ref name="theguardian">{{cite web|first=David|last=Adam|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/feb/09/fire-australia-aborigine |title=Australian wild fires prompt call to return to Aboriginal bush control|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=2009-02-09|access-date=2017-02-12}}</ref> In 2019, [[goat]]s deployed to graze the nearby flammable vegetation and create a firebreak helped save the [[Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum]] and [[Getty Museum]] from [[2019 California wildfires|California wildfires]].<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50248549 |title=California fires: Goats help save Ronald Reagan Presidential Library|publisher=BBC| date=31 October 2019| access-date =14 November 2019}}</ref>