Re: San Diego Fires also arson

>"Wildfire hazard mitigation is where it's at.  You live in an area
that
the ecology evolved around fire and don't plan on the brush and trees
to burn once in a while then you are asking to be homeless - or worse.
In nearly every case homes that are lost to brush and forest fires
could have been saved if the owners had taken steps to make their
homes fire resistant."(snip)

The local authorities used to do controlled burning up until the
middle '70's when the air quality attainment rules of the federal
Clean Air Act made that impractical. And usually when landowners would
disc their land, the ecofreaks would sue to save some varmint species.
Even with a good case, most landowners could not afford the
litigation, so they quit trying. Now this mess. I wonder how many
"endangered species" got burned up, and look at the air quality
now.-Jitney