According to firefighters, these fires put those living in the encampment and surrounding areas at risk.
"We have an increased wildfire risk to begin with given how dry it is, how little ran we have had and the oppressive heat we have had over 30 days of consecutive, 100-degree weather," said Matt Mackowiak, co-founder of Save Austin Now. "When you combine that with these encampments occurring in wooded areas, parks, on trails and private property where you have a lot of flammable material, it creates a toxic cocktail.
In May 2021, the city of Austin approved Proposition B making it a criminal offense for anyone to sit, lie down, or camp in public areas."If you don't let people camp in these areas in an unregulated way, you take away the risk of these fires occurring in these places. We want our homeless receiving services, we want them to be sober, on their mental health treatment plan, sheltered in safe environments," said Mackowiak.
"It's really important that we monitor these areas, we try to police these areas as much as possible, and educate people that live in those camps just how severe it is, those areas are going to affect other houses and apartment complexes very quickly," said Nicks.that I have read and agree
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