As a kid I used to live at the intersection of Mulholland drive and Topanga canyon. Real Estate was in Topanga was always discounted due to floods, mudslides and fire insurance was tough to get.
A vivid memory I have as a kid was standing on the edge of one of these hills some months after one of these fires and we had just had several weeks of good rain. I was standing at the edge of a huge crack in the ground the whole side of the hill was about to give away as there was nothing to hold it in place after the fire.
Hiking in Topanga canyon in the late 60’s I came across a the foundation of a huge house with a huge Iron gate, must have been a former actors house or something in the 20’s or 30’s it had been burned to the ground. In the canyons sooner or later you are going to get hit.
I would have thought Calabasas would be safe and surprised that it’s burning there, but then didn’t Atherton in the Bay Area get hit a few years ago ? And I thought that was a well developed area like Calabasas
California is a beautiful place to live you just have to be able to survive the occasional geologic episodes and natures fury.
I grew up at Tampa and Devonshire. One year one of the oil rigs at the end of Tampa caught fire, and no one could get it out. We could see it from our house between Chatsworth and Devonshire. They even had Red Adair come out, and his team couldn’t extinguish it. The Santa Anas came up and blew it out like a birthday candle.