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California Fire Battalion Chief - Whoever Did This Knew What They Were Doing
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| October 22, 2007
| News Admin - Unattributed
Posted on 10/23/2007 2:44:10 PM PDT by NorthernRight
Edited on 10/23/2007 5:40:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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To: BurbankKarl
My girlfriend’s sister is a police officer there and she was forced to evacuate
341
posted on
10/24/2007 11:26:29 AM PDT
by
2CAVTrooper
(Benedict Arnold was less of a traitor than the democrats)
To: rahbert
Geeeez,, thanks for your input, oh holier than thou one.
342
posted on
10/24/2007 11:46:48 AM PDT
by
rockabyebaby
(HEY JORGE, SHUT UP AND BUILD THE BLEEPING FENCE, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.)
To: rwfromkansas
First of all, there is no such state named "Cali." It is California, or CA if you can't be bothered to type out the whole name. Second of all, stuff your smug head where the sun don't shine, for all the good it's doing. You apparently don't use it to think. A uncontained brush fire moving at top speed is a tremendously dangerous and erratic thing. If one was coming your way, and you had no firefighters between you and the blaze, I'd want to see just how much bravado you'd show then. There is no such thing as evacuting people unnecessarily in the face of an approaching inferno.
This state has a long history of such fires, and the death and destruction they cause. So who the heck are you to be telling us about evcuations from the safety of whatever rabbit hutch you're posting from, dude?
343
posted on
10/24/2007 12:06:19 PM PDT
by
Wolfstar
(Circular firing squads do not kill the enemy. They kill us.)
To: TomGuy
If somebody burning down 700+ houses isn’t terrorism (albeit domestic) I sure don’t know what is! :*(
Prayers for all involved with the consequences of these fires!
344
posted on
10/24/2007 12:16:05 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud RUSH REPUBLICAN! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
To: gimme1ibertee
BORing, as usual. [yawn]
The truth will out.
345
posted on
10/24/2007 12:17:54 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud RUSH REPUBLICAN! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
To: Wolfstar
What the out-of-staters do not realize is that the Fire Department issues mandatory evacuation orders. The reason is that they do not want people running up to them asking for help when they are trying to save an entire subdivision. The fire department needs the freedom to determine which homes should be saved and which ones are not logistically worth saving. The goal is to keep the total number of homes lost low. Can you imagine someone running up to a fire engine asking for help because her better half was now trapped in their home. Hey, he only wanted to keep posting about the coming fire on the internet. The key stat is the number of homes lost verses the number of lives lost. Out here, the land and the people are important. Homes come and go.
To: NorthernRight
but ... Harry Reid said it was due to global warming?
To: rwfromkansas
Try to remember those words the next time Dorothy, Toto and the farm get sucked into one of those skyscraper-sized funnels your state’s known for.
To: PA-RIVER
Next thing you know, Harry will be suggesting that Bush struck the match.
To: NorthernRight
If the fires took place in NYS, the perps would be issued a driver’s license so that they could drive legally and more quickly to potential places to burn.
350
posted on
10/24/2007 1:32:27 PM PDT
by
GOPologist
(Btry. B, 228 FA Bn.-155mm Howitzer. WW 2 (Europe))
To: NorthernRight
We are NOT implying that the California fires are an act of terrorism however; the threat of pyro-terrorist attacks pose a significant risk to the U.S. and the fires in California and in Greece earlier this year should be a wake-up call. If memory serves, one of the huge fires in Arizona a few years back was set by a firefighter/arsonist. If you're looking for a fellow who knows what he's doing ... a firefighter is a good first guess.
Apparently it's not all that uncommon for pyros to become firefighters.
351
posted on
10/24/2007 1:33:34 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: BigBobber
My main suspects would be leftists of some sort My guess is a pyro who happens to be a firefighter.
352
posted on
10/24/2007 1:35:04 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: NorthernRight
Somebody out there must be really furious at their neighbor(s).
To: Old Sarge
Yeah...its taken care of by “Lister-marine”
354
posted on
10/24/2007 1:45:01 PM PDT
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
To: KC Burke
355
posted on
10/24/2007 1:55:10 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
("Dick Cheney should have gone hunting with Hillary." -- Yakov Smirnoff)
To: BenLurkin
356
posted on
10/24/2007 1:59:46 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Why isn’t this in Breaking News????)
To: NorthernRight
To pose an unpopular observation...
An underlying problem with the CA fires, NOLA drowning, Atlanta drought*, etc. is that society in general has this crazy notion that people can build anything they want where they want and expect no consequences - and if there are horrible consequences, somehow it's the government's fault.
C'mon, people!
- Build an all-wood home without a firebreak and fire suppression system in the dryest part of the country famous for annual fires - and if it burns, it's the government's fault?
- Build below sea level by the coastline with just a decades-old lowest-bidder scrawny wall to hold back the ocean - and if it drowns, it's the government's fault?
- Build a million homes in an area subject to less water accumulation than usage - and when the [all-manmade] lakes run dry, it's the government's fault?
It's the nature of any population to strain the limits of its environment at times. The consequences are very predictable. Humans should be smarter than this. (Heck, _I_ should be smarter than this.)
Whether the breaking point is caused naturally (lightning, hurricanes, drought) or deliberately (jihadi arson, GWB blasting the dike, Corps overwatering bivales, maniacs with boxcutters), residents of a information-saturated advanced society should prepare & react to such crisies in a manner born of "yes, it CAN happen to ME".
Tempting fate and then whining that complete strangers didn't do something about it should not be tolerated.
* - something I'm learning about the hard way
357
posted on
10/24/2007 2:02:08 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
To: rwfromkansas
Additionaly....good to see you. How are things there?
358
posted on
10/24/2007 2:02:16 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
To: Notary Sojac
my guess is that there were a couple of investors who were way, way underwater on their seven-figure mortgages. Wow. Just ... wow. Dang ... like, I ... Charles Babbage put it well:
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a [notion].
359
posted on
10/24/2007 2:06:21 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
To: KC Burke
360
posted on
10/24/2007 2:15:01 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
("Dick Cheney should have gone hunting with Hillary." -- Yakov Smirnoff)
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