Comments on: Federal Emergency declared in California Fires

By: Itsme

Itsme — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:08:08 +0000

I remember reading a few years back about a retired couple who were being made to repay the firefighting costs for a brush fire they’d started.

Seems they were towing their car with their big ol’ RV, and somehow the car’s tire blew and the rim was throwing sparks, which were starting little fires along the side of the highway for about a mile.

People honked and waved and shouted at them the whole time and they just ignored them.

They were crying their eyes out over the unfairness of the whole thing … being asked to pay the costs and all that.

By: Itsme

Itsme — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:02:23 +0000

Paul #10:

No kidding.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:01:09 +0000

Sometimes it’s a volunteer who wants to be hired on permanently, sometimes it turns out that the person just likes to light fires.

That’s a whole new definition of “creating your own job.”

By: gotfreedumb?

gotfreedumb? — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:49:55 +0000

The Earthquake will make the Fires look like armatures
the fires are just a warning of the upcoming main event.
the earthquake will put the entire west coast under water.

By: Itsme

Itsme — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:41:18 +0000

The two volunteer firefighters who “discovered” the 1993 Malibu fire under suspicious circumstances were arrested for arson, but the case couldn’t be proved.

Evidently arson among volunteer firefighters is a recognized problem. Sometimes it’s a volunteer who wants to be hired on permanently, sometimes it turns out that the person just likes to light fires.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/20/60II/main530103.shtml

By: gotfreedumb?

gotfreedumb? — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:37:15 +0000

there is no comparision between the deaths of disaster Katrina and Disaster California Fires.
only Monetary Comparisions can be made.
Katrina had far more deaths.

By: Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:33:59 +0000

One arsonist arrested, another killed, via the DogTrainer

By: SteveG

SteveG — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:59:45 +0000

The last arsonist caught up here was lonely, angry wasp who didn’t seem like the voting type.

A different angry white guy was found liable in a civil suit for costs associated with the Painted Cave Fire in 1990
Hundreds of homes burned, one woman dead.
The guy was said to have been mad at his neighbor and wanted the fire to burn the neighbors home.
Temperatures were 109 degrees, humidity was in the single digits and wind gusts topped 70MPH.
Arsonist guys home burned too which is one reason why the DA didn’t think they could win a circumstantial criminal case… the no one could be *that* stupid defense would come into play.

The story goes that the County of SB was certain the guy whose last name I think is Ross was the murderer/arsonist. They leaked his name to the press and in a stunningly bad move the guy brings suit against the County for libel… which made the DA piss all over himself with joy, because now the County could do all kinds of discovery to defend itself and in the process hoped to develop enough to file driminal charges. The libel suit was dropped, the County didn’t find enough to file a criminal case but after some time the County brought a civil suit for damages and won.

In this fire, the County of SB district fire HQ was overrun by flames, Public works, the county jail. Sheriff HQ overrun within two hours of start.

By: chaos

chaos — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:40:16 +0000

Just posted up on CNN, looks like they might be starting to get a handle on the fires:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/24/fire.wildfire.ca/index.html

By: Rovin

Rovin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:40:41 +0000

Yesterday Boxer attempted to make this political by making the claim that too many national guard (and equipment) is in Iraq, but she back-tracking bigtime today. Even al-CNN ran her non-sense blather followed by an interview with the head of Cal National Guard that said, she’s full of it.

The recovery and evacuations are running so smoothly it’s driving the left nuts trying to find an angle. But the fire’s are far from out, and so is the rhetoric.