https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/2014/10/21/stricter-fire-abatement-coming/ Almost All the News — Part of the Time Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/2014/10/21/stricter-fire-abatement-coming/#comment-37816 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:50:31 +0000 http://idyllwildtowncrier.com/?p=33419#comment-37816 My concern with abatement programs is very simple they do not work. Look at the last two years of wild land fires in Colorado, Arizona and California the communities that enforced and required abatement programs had no effect on entire neighborhoods and houses burning to the ground. That is correct you can have the best abatement program and still a wild land fire will come in and consume entire neighborhoods it might look nice and every one supports it but do the research look at the fire abatement programs they do not work. We are very fortunate on the Hill to have a 6-10 minute response time if your house catches on fire. Look at the last ten years of structure fires on the Hill and none of them spread and turned in to a raging wild land fire because our Fire Departments arrived and put the fires out. Yes we should have an escape plan ready for a wild land fire but there is not much we can do and abatement will not help

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