Here we go again.
Fire scorching homes built where they never should have been built in the first place. The CA ecosystem has been based on periodic brush clearing by fire for thousands of years. Man has interrupted that cycle, and now they are paying for it. I read that there had not been a fire in this area for nearly 50 years and that the underbrush had not been cleared in that time.
If you want to avoid this in the future, they need to implement strict building codes:
Brush clearing — nobody should be allowed to let their property be overgrown.
Fire retardent roofs — cement tile, metal, etc. Rigorously enforce this. Remove all wood shingle roofs.
Build multiple access roads — more than one way out of all areas.
Reduce crowding — tear down buildings too close to their neighbors’. Increase lot sizes.
Fire breaks between subdivisions must be kept cleared — open space with no vegetation.
Reservoirs for water storage.
I know that sounds harsh, and implementation will mean that many people currently living in these areas will have to move; but it must be done, or we will see this pattern repeated.
In the mean time, I feel terrible for those who are losing their houses, pets, and perhaps their lives.
So you’re going to let the government dictate what everyone can do with their property? How about letting them just take their chances, they know where they are building, if their houses burn down, tuff.
oh, and you don’t EVER have any natural disaster in Wisconsin now do ya.............
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Afraidfortherepublic, you do know that current California law DOESN’T ALLOW people to clear their property, right?
Aside from that, I’m really disgusted with everybody on this thread who is cheering on the loss of homes and lives in this fire. Yes, things could be changed; but how would you feel if everything you had was going up in flames and people from across the country were cheering? Or if you were a firefighter engulfed in flames and you knew everybody thought this agony was something you deserved for living in California?
And as for illegals, wiggen, I hope when we all have to flee to Costa Rica after Obama cracks down on us, that you will relish our death by fire as much as you are wishing it on others.
Get a grip, folks
Men can build anywhere. We are men, not animals.
Post #7 well said.
I grew up there, and most of what you say has been done for years. I remember wood shingled roofs being banned back in the 60's for instance; and fire breaks were everywhere. There are reservoirs all over the place; Devils Gate Dam, Sierra Madre Canyon, to name a few. The fact is that people who live there know these things already. They should never be forced to move ( by whom ?). They accept the risks. What you propose and how ( forced to move) so that it never happens again ( a ridiculous claim) sounds a bit to tyrannical too me.
Take all your demands and shove them where the sun doesn’t shine.
I have a home in the #1 fire zone in Glendale and will fight your drastic demands!!!
besides your damn demands, you aren’t even a Californianian so shut up!
If California residents built houses only where there was no danger of fire, flood, mudslides, earthquakes and, sometimes, tornados there would be no houses built at all in CA.
Sorry, but your list would be better if it simply listed 1:)vote for conservatives who use common sense, not democrat moonbats.
You forgot the new staff position at the fire department: Goat Herder, civil servant grade 14.
Let the critters eat the fuel, then eat the critters. Chivas for the masses!