I know it sounds tough, but you have to understand the CA ecosystem. Building in those canyons and failing to clear the underbrush is a recipe for disaster. Probably all the residents should be bought out and the entire area be declared State Forest. Building in the canyons (with shoddy construction in some cases) is akin to building on the beach at low tide and then complaining when the waves come flooding back and knock your house off it's foundation! When its acreas and acres of forest that burns, you just let it go and it finally burns itself out. No lives and dwellings are lost.
When lives and real property get involved, of course people demand that other people put their lives in danger to "save" them and their property. Why should we risk our lives and our fortunes to save people who built where they don't belong?
How many fire fighters will be lost in this fire, or have their health severely damaged? How many tax dollars will be spent? I know that sounds harsh, but if you understond California's ecohistory, you'd understand that building in those canyons is similar to building on the slopes of a volcano and then asking to be saved when it erupts.
It's an uncomfortable choice, but possible one that has to be made. Years ago, the only people who lived in those canyons were hermits, gold miners, or seasonal vacationers, etc. Now, there are thousands of homes which makes it a tinder box. Nobody wants to clear their brush because it's "charming".
Well, don't ask my husband or son to risk their lives rescuing you. And don't ask me to pay for fire fighters and their equipment to put out a fire that may have been started by your B-B-Q grill!. And if your ill placed house feeds a fire that threatens my house in town and damages my lungs because your fire has polluted the air I breathe, I'm not going to be very happy.
Please, all California residents, forgive me for speaking the truth. I'm a native of your state, the descendent of pioneers of your state, and it saddens my heart to see what greed, overpopulation, and overbuilding has done to the once-beautiful state of my youth every time I return on family business.
Then stay away.
so basically you’re saying it really is because they have disobeyed Mother Gaia.
no, actually those that live in the Canyons and dangerous fire areas are not allowed to clear brush around there house.
It has gotten so extreme one freeper was on here during the lake arrowhead fire a few years ago explaining how he had a DEAD pine tree near his drive way not far from his house on his own property and he could not take it down without permits. in order to get a permit a ranger (or some bureaucrat) had to inspect the tree which can take up to 4 years.
When I say let them take their chances I mean no firefighters risking their lives, no public insurance, no tax dollars spent on evacuations, etc. But NO GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS on what you can do with your OWN property!