Over the past week, a delayed fire season has hit the Southland with a vengeance! Except for the Palos Verdes fire, all current blazes are continuing to wreak havoc on firefighters, property and air quality. My eyes are burning as I write this piece. Mandatory evacuations are in order for many areas, and some residents near La Cañada are now trapped.
Tragically, firefighters Arnaldo Quinones, 35, of Palmdale and Tedmund Hall, 47, of San Bernardino were killed while overseeing workers who were clearing brush at a Department of Corrections, inmate campsite, and drove off the side of a treacherous road in the Mt. Gleason area, south of Acton, around 2:30 p.m., Sunday. We salute these brave souls, along with the thousands of firefighters across California who continue to diligently battle the havoc.
Hand crews attempted to intervene Sunday by clearing brush by Mt. Wilson, the historic observatory and critical transmission towers for local television and radio stations. That structure and outlying areas are still in danger of being engulfed. The radius of the largest fire is spreading westward towards Tujunga, Sunland, Sylmar and Santa Clarita. Current estimates for property damage are upwards of $7.7 million on top of the millions of dollars it costs to combat these blazes.
This entry was posted
on Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 2:50 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
|
Leave a Comment
Comment Policy
I invite you to share your comments and welcome debate and differing viewpoints. Please note that comments submitted are moderated, and will be reviewed but not edited. I ask that the conversation be kept civil, and that commenters honor the following guidelines:
- No baseless attacks that identify individuals, companies, or other organizations.
- No discriminatory, defamatory, offensive, libelous, threatening or rude language.
- No comments especially long ones, posted on multiple sites for propaganda purposes.
- No invasion of privacy; no racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable language.
- No material in violation of trademark or copyright laws or other laws.
- No irrelevant comments that do not address the topic in the blog post.
- No spam, flaming, flooding, advertisements or solicitations.
|
Wow – I did not realize how much it cost in dollars AND in resources (ex. water) to put out these fires. I hope this ends soon.
The dry, dry L.A. desert…I guess it will remain a tinderbox. Now I am living where it rained 8 inches in one DAY last week – it was wonderful. L.A. would take YEARS to get 8 inches of rain.
As long as people build in the hills of california…they might as well get used to fires destroying their homes and personal belongings….but these same people who disregard “mother nature” want us to pay for their losses…reminds me of the wealthy who build on the ocean fronts who want the tax payers to pay for beach replenishment and for their homes that are lost…If these same people pay for their own mistakes without my tax dollars…i have no problem where they build or live…but don’t make me pay for their arrogance…
This definitely makes perfect sense to me
You couldn’t be more factual!