Hello all: Here are two items of interest.
An excerpt from an article about the California fires addresses the issue of how sprawl has increased the danger. A blog which has a few items about going car-free in Los Angeles. All my best, Al Matano .. Firefighters, while dismayed by the losses, make no apologies. The fire was so ferocious, in part, because new developments have been built against canyons that act as funnels for the Santa Ana winds. Indeed, Poway calls itself "the City in the Country" -- a quaint selling point, perhaps, but precisely the problem from a firefighting standpoint. Local governments, firefighters said, have been unable to keep pace with the explosive suburban growth. "The area is growing at an astronomical rate. We can't keep up," Marcello said. "You can't just say, 'I want to build a new fire station,' and then it just happens overnight. It takes years." That, combined with the further strain on resources because of the sheer number of fires throughout the region, left many areas woefully short on personnel. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-firefighters25oct25,0,5053379.story? page=2&coll=la-home-center Includes some car-free notes: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/emeraldcity/ _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
