[pct-l] Fires

[jmertes@gte.net (John Mertes)]

> You don't think anyone on this list fits either category???????????????
> the most homes and lives lost as I remember in a brush /forest generated
> fire was the Oakland-Berkeley Fire.(doubt that controlled burning would
> have helped.)
>

    I remember that fire. I was there. I watched the fire come over the
north rim of Claremont Canyon and head south. At that time, I said to my
friend, Judy, "Let's get out of here."  On the way back down to her
house, a few blocks, the Oakland Police were coming thru on motorcycles
advising everyone to get out now. I remember the traffic jam getting out
of that area. Judy's house was incinerated by the fire.
    Yet every year afterwards the local authorities have a very hard
time getting people to do the basics of fire prevention -- clearing
brush back from their houses, etc.  And the wood shingle & shake people
still want people to roof their houses with tinder.

    Seems often times we people don't learn even from traumatic
experiences.

John



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