Could it be the drought and the heat?
Or a careless person?
Fire department should place more enforcement in those areas. Once a kid drowned, then the parents decide to cover and put a gate or cover over the Pool. We would assume that by now California would be more prepared for this type of disaster
http://www.cbs8.com/clip/12666472/bluecut-fire-fire-shuts-down-main-route-to-las-vegas
http://www.cbs8.com/story/32772680/bluecut-fire-more-than-82000-people-flee-southern-california-wildfire
Hope I'm the only one whose travel plans had to be changed... Send thoughts to the families who have lost their homes.
Last updated: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 AT 11:39PM
Acres burned: 18,000
Containment: 0%
Location: Cajon Pass West of I-15
Start date: August 16, 2016
Cause: Unknown
Evacuations:
The entire community of Wrightwood
West of I-15, and West of Hwy 395 and west of Summit Valley
South of Bear Valley Rd. and East of Caughlin Road.
North of 138, east of Sheep Creek, south of Phelan Rd. and west of Caliente
Lone Pine Canyon
Swarthout Canyon
West Cajon Valley
Lytle Creek Canyon
-- Modified on 8/17/2016 5:27:03 AM
I was just up that way a few weeks back driving towards Barstow, got caught in a terrible back up due to an accident. I also remember several years back having to delay a Vegas trip due to fire and the 15 being closed.
MfSD>>>>
Could it be the drought and the heat?
Or a careless person?
Most areas are vacant and full of un managed greenery.
Fire department should place more enforcement in those areas.
Once a kid drowned, then the parents decide to cover and put a gate or cover over the Pool.
We would assume that by now California would be more prepared for this type of disaster
Problems are:
It's a dry area to begin with
The drought isn't helping
The area is too big to patrol
The fires are usually started by firebugs or idiots throwing cigarette butts from cars... Can't monitor every person and fines aftercthe fact don't help ...(perpetrators are seldom caught anyhow)
Sometimes the fires are started by inanimate objects (prisms or other objects such as dangling ornaments , wind chimes, crystal balls etc which create a magnifying glass type effect of concentrating light in one spot) ...again can't be monitored
Biggest problem of all in desert areas:
Poorly underfunded fire fighter resources
Usually volunteers only
For example where I live in California desert we have the LARGEST area of sq miles in the USA for one fire division. It's entirely volunteer run ..mostly retirees... And NO funding !!!
Our firehouse is a toolshed and barely 2 men can stand inside it . It's tiny.
We are in extreme desert so there's really no plant life to catch fire... It's pure sand and salt out here. But if someone's house catches fire.. the team just stand there and watch it burn down..( if they even make it to the right place because there's no real address system many roads have no names.)
They will go in to pull any humans out ... But they don't have any proper resources to stop the fire
So really they just do rescues.
Everything just burns.
Our taxes go to find stealing oil and poppies overseas but we can't even get a firehouse.
It makes my blood boil.
This country needs to start LOOKING AFTER ITS SELF FIRST
By putting out fires that should have been left to burn years ago we make todays fires bigger and more dangerous. Then we build nassive developments in areas that have long histories of wild fires.
Just follow the money.