Posted on 08/30/2009 1:48:13 PM PDT by kellynla
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today urged residents in fire evacuation zones to flee as firefighters predicted another difficult day battling a wildfire that has burned 35,000 acres and threatened more than 12,000 homes from Acton to Altadena.
Schwarzenegger noted at a morning press conference that three residents in Big Tujunga Canyon suffered serious burns trying in vain to save their homes Saturday.
"There will be people who don't listen," the governor said at the fire command post in Lake View Terrace. ". . . Move as soon as [firefighters] say to move."
Although thousands of homes are covered in the evacuation orders, many residents have stayed behind, with some vowing to fight to protect their homes from the Station fire.
The fire line now extends about 19 miles east to west. The governor and other elected officials praised firefighters for successfully protecting subdivisions in the foothills.
With temperatures expected to reach the mid- to high 90s today in the fire areas, officials said they were anticipating extreme fire conditions, mirroring Saturday’s, when flames leapt as high as 80 feet and spread at a rate of about 2.5 miles an hour.
More than 2,000 fire personnel now are deployed fighting the Station fire.
In the Acton area, mandatory evacuations have been ordered along the 14 Freeway from Soledad Canyon Road to Crown Valley Road and along Aliso Canyon Road from Soledad Canyon Road to Angeles Forest Highway.
The California Highway Patrol has also closed the onramps and offramps to the 14 Freeway at Soledad Canyon Road, Agua Dulce, Escondido Canyon Road, Red Rover Mine Road and Crown Valley Road. They said they were concerned that fire behavior in the area could become extreme as they were expecting the wind to shift about 10 a.m.
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Actually, previous gov’t leaders wanted to do alot of underbrush clearing and controlled burns in a number of area that throughout CA. It was the environmental groups that sued to stop them. So now we have this reoccuring problem..
210 westbound.
People believe that because it is true, regardless of what you two envirowacko control freaks think.
We’ve had numerus brush/forest fires every year sinve i’ve been here for the last 72 years.
Pay your home insurance and forget it!
If my home in Glendale burns down so what!
Not familiar with that one. I have relatives who live up on Alta Canyada Road in La Canyada Flintridge... I guess they’re in the middle of all this.
“Get to da Choppah...”
Thanks, I will. I wouldn't visit your state if you paid me. Besides, what FR provision prohibits me from commenting on the CA threads?
ROFL
“what FR provision prohibits me from commenting on the CA threads?”
Nothing except that it doesn’t concern you.
If I choose to live in a fire zone, pay my insurance and get burned out it’s none of your damn business or anyone elses!
OK! You do that then!
Man can build houses safely on such hillsides, they do not have to be planted in roses — better a family bloom than a rose.
It take real judgment for a local council to say yes — that plan will work to prevent your house from sliding down. But that judgment when made and followed up on in earnest makes mankind the better.
The rose bushes scream out — “Men! You made yourself lesser than you could be.”
I have for all my life, including my current home for the last 43 years and nothing is going to change!
In that case it is the insurance and the mortgages which ensnares us all together, as last September proved.
Insurance is cheap as far as i’m concerned, my fire insurance only costs me $1400/year.
As far as mortgages, nobody gets snared except deadbeats that shouldn’t ever be allowed to purchase a home.
You and me and the rest of us are snared in the mortgages — that’s as real as the fire. Ideals don’t stop fires and ideals of what mortgages should be written aren’t stopping all of us from being snared in bad ones — OUR government is buying them and insuring them.
It’s like the house built at the bottom of mudslide hill. We can build it to any code we’d like, but if the guy up the hill from us is a slacker, we are in danger.
“Ideals don’t stop fires and ideals of what mortgages should be written aren’t stopping all of us from being snared in bad ones — OUR government is buying them and insuring them.”
Return to the rules when I bought my home, you put down 20% minimum and your payments, insurance, and taxes couldn’t exceed 30% of your income and there wasn’t any government insurance, and the problem is eliminated.
If you can’t meet those requirements you have no business having a home!!!
As far as your mud slide, buy adequate insurance and your neighbors mud slide doesn’t make any difference.
Re Mortgages: That WOULD BE good, but it IS NOT the present circumstance.
Re Mudslides: All the insurance in the world would not allow your family to wake up the next morning.
“Re Mortgages: That WOULD BE good, but it IS NOT the present circumstance.”
That’s the fault of Congress and Bush and all those people in trouble belong out in the street with nothing if for no other reason than being stupid!
What is true is that people who choose to live in areas that are *not* prone to natural disasters every single year are a little tired of paying billions of govt disaster relief $$$ to those who choose not to listen to common sense and believe they are somehow invulnerable.
You shouldn’t be able to make any stupid decisions you want *if* they screw other people.
The same was true for katrina. Here we had a city that’s a soup bowl below sea level. Why were people allowed to live there? And when disaster did inevitably strike, everyone is upset.
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