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Old 10-31-2019, 4:16pm   #9
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Originally Posted by mrvette View Post
Well, how come the issue is one of growth getting now large enough in the last 5 years or so?? what about the previous 50 years?? never hear of Ca. catasstrofe' fires before that, so what changed???
Like I said, the board of directors of the power company (PG&E) literally decided that huge bonuses and stockholder dividends were more important. Another thing that changed is massive population growth over the last 50 years and people building where they should not have been allowed to. Fires have always happened here since the dawn of mankind. There is actually a type of pine tree here that requires fire for it's pine cones to eject seeds. If there were not fires here for hundreds of thousands of years those trees would be extinct. That's one of the ways we know fires are nothing new here.

Study the history of the Indians in this state. They knew better than to live in the forests. Probably learned the hard way thousands of years ago like some are learning now.

The next crisis that is beginning is fire insurance being cancelled for thousands of properties, and no new policies being written. My brother has a million dollar house he is trying to sell up in the gold country and nobody will touch it. He still has fire insurance for now, but no one will insure it for a new owner. There is a government subsidized fire insurance, jus like the only place you can get earthquake insurance, but the deductibles are high and it's expensive.
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