…WILDFIRE DEATH TOLL RISES TO 44. is california fire dept. responsible for offering BAD ADVICE?
California builders and banks profit from fire destroyed homes (maybe that should be fixed), homeowners hate it.
But new policy is: be lax on requiring forestry and yard tending, urge homeowners NOT to water their property to prevent it from burning, and that all residents should leave their residence by GOVERNMENT ORDER all at once (creating a hellish traffic jam) or face the possibility of being arrested for staying to (protect their home with a hose).
Millenials always ask me: why the hell is the guy wetting the roof and why is California making laws against it?
(1) because it works.
the fact is in many cases the roof catches fire first and if it's saved (the best way is not to have a wooden roof btw) - there's a good chance structure may survive fire.
(2) staying behind as a "last minute roof wetter" severely increases risk you run into flames while trying to leave town
(3) Cal fire dept is telling people that "they are threatening and killing their neighbors if they wet their roof" (i dispute this, i say this is a tool of government to threaten people legally). HOW? HOW? They say the steam from a home that does catch fire after being wetted down heads down wind and "scalds any neighbors nearby).
(a) but there aren't any neighbors near by a call to evacuate was "government threatened on the town" ?! all the republicans were arrested on some other bogus charge anyway.
(b) but a home on fire collapses, water pipes break and that will throw allot more steam than some latent water on a roof - on a home that more likely ISN'T burning because it's roof was protected.
obviously no one should require you to be on the roof with a hose - many can't do it
yet claiming those who do it have attacked their neighbors: sounds to me like powerful democrats are connected with real estate (that's SURELY TRUE) and don't like homes "saved"