Wild Fires In LA

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

That sound pretty good thought J Grant. A limit on payout, but it seems the government puts out more than received. So if you can cure that, your idea is perfect. Personally, i'm tired of people building houses along a constant flooding river. Fannie now buys that property instead of fixing many times. The same goes for hurricane & tornado alley.

I predict los angelas burned areas will become an urban desert. Too many related things to be fixed at once, including properties and businesses.

California Wildfire Map Update As Poway Fire Starts​

Firefighters are still battling two massive wildfires in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon as a new fire ignited near San Diego as strong winds returned to southern California.
Powerful Santa Ana winds fueled the rapid spread of wildfires in San Diego County early Tuesday, prompting evacuations as officials in Los Angeles remained on high alert amid high winds and relentless dry conditions.

At least three fires broke out in northern San Diego County overnight, including the Lilac and Pala fires, which grew to 50 and 30 acres, respectively, with 0% containment as of Tuesday morning.

This morning I woke up to smoke in my local air. I suspect it is from the fires in N San Diego County, as we are about 30 miles north of there. There was a blanket of greyish white stretching across the horizon. My eyes were burning this morning from the smoke, and I could certainly smell the burn. Yesterday there was a large fire in Hemet, which is east of me about 18 miles. It apparently took out a school and surrounding area. That is quite a flat neighborhood, so I understand they got the flames put out within a day or so. The firefighters must be absolutely exhausted. They are heroes for sure.

We have a mountain ridge rising to my west about 4 miles away, running kinda north to south, which separates Riverside County from Orange County, with one major mountainy road going across it, called the Ortega Highway. If that catches fire this time we will be in big trouble here. The topography has fairly steep mountain slopes, dried timber and shrubs, 1-way in/out. A number of years ago a resident living in one of the tiny villages up there had a dispute with his neighbor and told him he'd burn his house down. That he did. Went to jail. But we had to deal with the smoke etc in town, and quite a bit of land burned. In the aftermath, many insurance companies would no longer write homeowner policies on the land between the (15) Freeway and that mountain ridge due to fire danger. Should be due to ARSONIST danger; that was not a natural burn. Caused by human anger and stupidity. But as always, there's consequences to everything.