Sayre Fire: Someone Must Pay
At 6AM this morning....
The fire started at Veterans Memorial Park. It probably didn't start itself.
Could have been a cigarette, a small cooking fire, a bonfire with drinking buddies, or a deliberate act by a sick individual or group.
Regardless, if someone with any cognitive ability whatsoever is lighting a flame in conditions such that we have now, they are knowingly threatening everyone's lives. Attempted murder, in essence.
- 2600 acres
- 10,000 homes threatened
- 500+ firefighters and growing
- 12 water dropping helicopters
- 2 fixed-wing aircraft
- Countless homes and possessions already burned
- Citizens and firefighters hurt
- Pets and animals burned alive
- 0% containment
- Cost to the taxpayers: $million$ and counting
The fire started at Veterans Memorial Park. It probably didn't start itself.Could have been a cigarette, a small cooking fire, a bonfire with drinking buddies, or a deliberate act by a sick individual or group.
Regardless, if someone with any cognitive ability whatsoever is lighting a flame in conditions such that we have now, they are knowingly threatening everyone's lives. Attempted murder, in essence.
- Major health cost to thousands from stress and air quality conditions
- Unknown cost in medical bills, loss of work time, or even permanent disability
- Unknown amount of repairable and irreparable damage to the environment
- Odds that the arsonist will be caught and prosecuted: very low.
- Typical sentence if caught: community service hours or less than a year of jail time.
Labels: arson, arsonist, lafd, sayre fire, sylmar, sylmar fire, veterans memorial park
Posted by Petra Fried in the City @ 11/15/2008 07:01:00 AM
5 Comments:
Could this have been started by a homeowner who is near repossession....the insurance would solve all of the problems...Could it have been a tenant who rented a home for many years and is now evicted because the owner defaulted and the bank took it back and wont sell it to the tenant or negotiate the rental....Could it be a senior citizen barely holding on to life and limb who would be eligable for General Relief, Food Stamps, Section 8, etc., all of the things that a single senior is not eligable unless they are the victim of a catastaphic event?
Some one who starts fires is usually mentally ill, but it may be a new trend in survival....
Perfect justice would be served if the arsonist would be set on fire. It might give a few of these whack jobs pause.
Excellent post Petra and welcome back.
In watching the press conferences and all the reporting one has to come to the assumption that LA and Southern California has the finest first responders and emergency services in the nation, probably the world.
It comes from years of experience and practice and great civic leadership in the past.
And it continues despite how utterly corrupt and incompetent leadership has been in LA the last couple of decades.
I assume this is due to either the professionals in the departments can do continue to manage well despite the nonsense of the local elected officials or that when it comes to emergency services, the electeds aside their bullshit and do what needs to be done.
However given some of the reporting that Petra has done about various decisions made, practices, etc. by the politicians with respect to certain aspects of public safety the latter is probably not entirely true.
I just wonder how long we can count on the career expertise of the public safety leadership who came up in the old days before we begin to feel the effects of the current games our pols play.
Ya, I keep wondering how these fires get started too. Cigarettes sold in California are supposed to all be by law self extinguishing. I was evacuated in the last fire that started in Little Tujunga Canyon. I still can't believe the fire fighters were able to save our homes in Kagel Canyon. We are so Fortunate and grateful.
THE CITY AND FIRE COMMISSION NEED TO COME UP WITH FIRE RETARDENT MATERIALS THAT COULD BE USED ON HILLSIDES AND BUILD HOMES WITH FIRE RESISTANT MATERIALS. THESE KIND OF MEASURES WILL REDUCE OR STOP FIRES IN THE FIRST PLACE. SADLY LA CITY DOES NOT LISTEN AND PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO PAY FOR IT.
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