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I hope the firefighters are able to save all the homes and that they don't sustain any further injuries. Bless them for their diligence and hard work in that scorching heat.
Our close friends lost their home and beloved pet cat because of a jerk of an arsonist.
The arsonists that start these fires should have to clean up the mess they make and then some. They should have to remove debris, replant, replace and rebuild every bit of what they burned. Then they should have to train to fight these kinds of fires and serve some time that way - on the front lines.
US News
Apr 27, 2008
1,000 people evacuated near Sierra Madre wildfire
About 1,000 residents were evacuated from 200 homes in the upper part of Sierra Madre against the mountains over the weekend as Southern California broiled in record-breaking heat. Fire officials said Sunday evening that the blaze was about 30% contained and that the threat to structures had mostly abated. But they said they would not decide until noon today whether to allow residents to return to their homes. All Sierra Madre schools will be closed today.
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1 When you put fires out, you increase the danger of huge fires later. |
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1 I agree A1A Why is it only folks east of the west coast can understand that concept? |
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1 Here's a thought - why would anyone live in a tinder box? |
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1 Agreed! Why can't people grasp this concept??? Instead, they build their homes in future & present fire paths putting 1st responders in harms way. We should create a new tax called the "Idiotic & Stupid" tax for such people. |
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1 Fires are national security problem as well as global warming cause of 1000 times larger than CO2 emission from cars. It is time to make sure that fires are not caused by intentional arson by the enemies of America and that the forests are designed with fire free spacing to avoid fire to move from one forest to the another. |
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1 Arnie deserves the girlie pink panties award. |
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Hillary and Bill caused it, for sure.
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You are correct, A1A CHARLES. My son is an Oregon Contract Firefighter. That being said, fires are not just "put out," rather they are managed to the best ability of the firefighters. Lush, heavy growth in wilderness areas is unnatural. By maintaining and controlling the fire, nature's balance is maintained. Putting the fires out is a matter of where there are humans and their property. Then the fires are controlled to keep those in harms way as safe as possible.
In nature, wild fires are a part of the balance, and putting the fires out puts things out of balance. Some grasses, trees, and other plants cannot survive without the heat of fires, which are needed for them to reproduce and survive. Growth of grasses and other ground cover left because a fire is prematurely put out with continue to grow and thicken. When there is a drought, it dies and is a superior fire hazard.
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1 And look, there's the easter bunny. I think he demanded we liberate Al-Sadr and his American troop killing militia from Saddam. Lets get em! |
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1 almost. Have you breathed in any superheated, lung searing, air yet? |
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This is a bad situation. I hope everyone gets out safe. However on another note I is not too wise to have so many people in those 200 homes, I think they said about a 1,000 or about 10 to each house, they must have large families out there.
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Unless my 4th grade math teacher was a complete liar, wouldn't that be 5 in each home? |
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1 "Fire Management"= A bunch of hourly paid, youthfully naive environmental superheroes standing around collecting money from the US treasury while the long-range implications of poor management practice and politically motivated ecological grandstanding build momentum toward a conflagration of epic proportion. Oh, well, we just about gave all of our old growth virgin forest away to the corporate welfare timber companies back in the day, so they could sell it off to Japan and other foreign interests. The resources that rightfully belong to the American people have been squandered to enrich an unholy few so you now have to pay to enter your state and national parks. Enjoy your vacation. |
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1 You ever watch a fire crown out in a bad fire season after a wind shift and have to shake and bake? Ever been to the Pacific Northwest? For that matter, have you ever put down the video game control and gotten out of your own living room, junior? People west of the whatever know a hell of lot more about forest fires than people who live where there aren't even any forests. Make a comparison about how much forest is west of the Rocky Mtn. foothils and then tell me that it isn't so. |
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