Officials throughout California are preparing for another crippling drought throughout the state—but officials in Orange County say they are ready. After two years of below-average precipitation levels, fears of devastating wildfires loom on the horizon. The ground throughout the state has become parched, threatening vegetation and daily life. Experts are encouraging people throughout Southern California to increase water conservation efforts and take precautionary measures against the state’s devastating wildfires, which they say are likely to become worse and more frequent. Greg Barta, a spokesperson for the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA), told The Epoch Times that the department’s more than 1,500 firefighters now face the grim prospect of battling wildfires in the region throughout the year. “There used to be this theory that basically the fire season was kind of like September, October, [and] November, and now what we’ve seen is fire season’s pretty much year-round,” Barta said. Last year …