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You didn’t place sani-flush, bleach, other cleaning agents out of the reach of your young children? Really?

That’s all this amounts to. You give your kids age specific responsibility. You don’t ask them to be pefect. That’s what this all about.

I have advocated that matches be stored so that young kids won’t have to make certain choices, that could cause them, you, the whole family, the neighbors and the region harm.

Your response is to trash me for acting as if I am perfect, and preaching down to you. Tell me, do you think all firemen act as if they were perfect when they advocate the same things I have?

I’ve seldom seen people go so freaking wild because someone offered a suggestion that would spare their children a terrible lifetime burden.

How’s this scenario sound? Instead of starting the Castaic fire, this kid or another set the San Diego fire that burned down 1500 homes with a value of $1 billion dollars.

When the fire chief and the local County Sheriff come to you door, they ask how the child got the matches. Then you stand there with a puffed up look on your face and say, “Well what did you expect, me to lock up the matches?” What are you two, perfect or something?

Good luck lady.

sure, I kept the stuff locked up when they were little. but when they learned that a magnifying glass was great at burning leaves. It didn't take them but a couple days to burn holes in the leather seats of my car and burn little holes the trampoline--all with a little, cheap magnifying glass. (Gasp! we've had a trampoline for 5 years!) That was when they were about 10 and 8. They are 12 and 10 now. We've been funneling their energies in Boy Scouts and the State's Youth Hunting Program.

It's your contempt and lack of empathy for this kid that's repelling.