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We can’t treat fire as an occasional emergency the fire department will take care of. Managing fire risk is something every town and home owner need to spend t
by lokar 2y ago
We can’t treat fire as an occasional emergency the fire department will take care of. Managing fire risk is something every town and home owner need to spend time on year round.
- ghaff 2y agoEven if you don't really live in a wildfire area, there are things you can/should do. I get my fields cut back with a tractor once or twice a year and keep a lawn around the house. I also won't use firepits that have the potential to ignite the surroundings.
- lokar 2y agoThis is what everyone needs to be doing, and the fire dept. needs to enforce it.
- throw0101a 2y ago> […] and the fire dept. needs to enforce it. And/or insurance companies.
- lokar 2y agoThis is actually where the action has been recently. Lots of people complain about aerial inspection by insurance followed by ultimatums to clear vegetation and junk. Look for people asking for regulations to prevent this any day now.
- ghaff 2y ago>Look for people asking for regulations to prevent this any day now. I actually sort of empathize with a point of view that you pay your insurance every year, aren't doing anything especially unreasonable, and have to adhere to a somewhat arbitrary new standard at possibly very significant cost and time. To be clear, I get the other side too in wildfire-prone areas.
- throw0101a 2y ago> […] and have to adhere to a somewhat arbitrary new standard at possibly very significant cost and time. Either you adhere to standard and make the effort to comply, or you eat the cost of a higher premium because your property has a higher risk. It's going to cost you either way. Or you can decide to try to go without insurance and you pay neither the costs of the premium nor adhering to the standard.
- lokar 2y agoFire protection is like vaccination. It protects you, but also people (homes) around you.
- ghaff 2y agoThese are fairly high cost areas (for the most part) so a lot of people will eat higher costs or get out. But, for many others, the answer is move to Nevada and CA housing prices increase overall, if you can't afford to live there, you should probably find somewhere cheaper.
- bongodongobob 2y agoUnless you live in the southwest, this isn't true at all.
- lokar 2y agoOr the northwest? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Fire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Fire The world is changing
- ghaff 2y agoWildfires in many areas of the West is not a particularly new thing. B&B Complex Fires in Oregon in 2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26B_Complex_fires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26B_Complex_fires Yellowstone Fires in 1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 And I'm sure I could find many other older examples.
- RangerScience 2y agoLA homeowner here. My backyard is also an undeveloped (re: “natural” hillside). I’m responsible for clearing brush in that hillside, so that it’s n-hundred feet from structures. It’s checked in May, or thereabouts.
- lokar 2y agoInteresting. City or county enforcement? From the news it seems like it was not well enforced in the burn area, perhaps it’s more public land there?
- RangerScience 2y agoI think city? Which for me is LA itself. Pacific Palisades and Altadena would be different cities, and yes, from the maps the burn areas are public land.