My Neighbors Are Putting My Family, My Home, My Possessions At Risk

My Neighbors Are Putting My Family, My

Home, My Possessions At Risk

A Picture Says A Thousand Words.

I truly love most of my neighbors. We've all been together in this lovely, quiet and charming country neighborhood in the North San Deigo Rural Community of Vista for decades. But I just get so frustrated  sometimes when I see this. You would think that with all the devastating fires San Diego has just experienced that folks would be on the MITIGATION BANDWAGON

NOT!!

What you see in these photos has been accumulating year after year for the past couple of decades. the local fire department had to cut back their fire prevention program due to lack of funding. Now our community only has one person, a city employee, left holding the bag for the entire community and very few residents seem to care one bit about mitigating even around their own homes. But even sadder is the fact that the homes in these pictures aren't even in the city. They're in the County which is even more difficult to deal with.

In this photo one of my neighbors less than a quarter mile from my home decided to cut the dead palm frawns, extremely potent fuel for fires BTW, and just leave it lying on the ground. It's been there for months. I would think that downwind (in the Santa Ana wind path) from the fires that broke out less than 2 miles from where this photo was taken that this homewoner or at least his neighbots would be all over this situation and extremely motivated to clean up and remove all this very prime fuel.

These aging Eucalyptus trees are situated in the middle of a neighborhood with considerably more density than the semi rural neighborhood our home is located in. However, it is in the same Santa Ana wind path. Should a fire break out upwind in a strong dry Santa Ana this whole neighborhood would be toast inasmuch as most of the homes are between 15 to 80 years old with dry landscaping surrounding them as in the photo above.

The sad reality is that as a disaster response contractor having worked in the aftermath of catastrophic fire, tornado, hurricane, flood, and earthquake disasters for the past 30 years from California to Florida I can attest first hand to the absolute havoc, despair, loss of home and even loss of pets but most importantly loss of life and/or loved ones.

What will it take to make the owners, some

very long time homeowners and stakeholders

of these 400k to multi-million dollar homes

and estates WAKE UP AND SMELL THE

SMOKE?

Above: This was the recent San Marcos "COCOS" fire that destroyed many

homes and properties, closed business and schools, placed hospitals and first

responders in peril and cost millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars by

the time the ASHES all settle.

To make things even more perilous most of the homes in the neighborhood

photos above are much older and drier with dense dry landscape right up to

their doorstep. Many are wood sided and worse many have shake roofs. This

does not a very good scenario make.

What we saw in May showed up about 4 months early this year. The

combination of California's current drought crisis coupled with the

anticipated Santa Ana Wind season that will undoubtedly show up this fall could result in dire consequences for those who don't do their part. 

You could be placing you, your family, friends and

neighbors in great peril by ignoring the warnings.

What are you and your neighbors doing to

help mitigate what could be potentially

one of the biggest crisis in your lifetime?

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