There's another big fire in SoCal around Laguna Niguel area right now! This is the second fire in the area within a year that has burned serval multimillion dollar homes.
My opinion... so what! 🤷🏻♂️
They built those expensive houses there and did nothing about the surrounding area.
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Now not being heartless, I do care about the wildlife. They had absolutely nothing to do with the situation. Yet the owners of those homes expect others to clear the surrounding areas.
You see I have lived on a large parcel of land before for over twelve years. Twenty acres to be exact and I did my own clearing. Two acres by hand to be exact.
These people are very wealthy, I always have been poor. If I could clear two acres by hand then I can have no sympathy for any that refuse to do anything despite their own wealth!
The problem is, when winds are strong enough, embers can be blown for miles. Cleared or not, fires can find other means of spreading. Clearing can reduce the risk of fire and is a common practice where I live in the Napa Valley. People who live here understand it should be done. But the worst fires spread through blowing embers, land on roofs and trees and ignite, and clearing brush can only do so much.
oh god i’m glad somebody brought this up. for most of the US, natural wildfires are a necessary force to prevent bigger and more dangerous fires from occurring. it’s surprising to me how little celebs know about an area and build the most expensive house in an area that is either overdue for a natural fire or has small ones frequently. if someone with a ton of money moves to an area without studying or researching what natural forces occur in the area over the span of a decade or so, then they are willfully being ignorant
CalFire has been sending the California state legislature advisements for controlled burns for decades to thin out brush. Environmentalists of course knew better and let areas become so over run that when they do catch fire it burns so hot even the seeds are destroyed.
@stratosranger the problem really isn't at the state level.
It's at the county level for allowing those homes to be built.
I know the area very well. I almost moved there in highschool when it wasn't million dollar homes much less multimillion dollar homes. I believe the house cost around 100,000 dollars that my half brother looked at.
And the reason he didn't buy? The area was too much of a fire risk!
Years back my Mom was looking at a house. I noticed it had a lovely creek in the back. And then after looking at a topographic map told her, “This house should have never been built here. The whole area is a flood plain.” And I was correct. @DeWayfarer
@stratosranger that's another point. Lived for a bit in Texas on such a piece of property. Unfortunately it wasn't my own property. I would have moved the place to higher ground. Yet they didn't think they should have. So got flooded three years in a row before I moved there. 😔
After extensively blaming climate change on the 2020 Australian bushfires.. the media went deadly silent when it was revealed that 200 eco warriors had been caught and charged with arson
I remember this place where you lived. 😊 Rich people are A LOT more lazier than us poor folk ever dreamed of being! But I am sorry about the wild fires and the land too.😔🔥🌳🦜
@Peaches there actually is a huge cave system there. But it's blocked off by a huge metal grating. You can't see it from on top though and this is the only picture I could find.😔
Fires are natural and are necessary for a healthy ecosystem. A big problem is that people spend too much time fighting fires, which leads to areas that are overdue to have a fire and have an abundance of dead trees, etc, leading to fires that burn with greater intensity.
As for homes built there, it sucks to suck. Just like homes built in areas where tornadoes or hurricanes strike.
@deadgerbil true, yet this was predicted back in the 1970's. You have no idea where about tornadoes nor hurricanes occur. Just a very broad general area. This is a very specific area. And always had been a problem.
