October 26, 2007
Thousands moved into (California's) fire-risk areas
Since 2000, more than 55,000 people have moved to the neighborhoods touched by this week's fires, according to the analysis. Many settled in some of the riskiest wildfire areas vulnerable to the types of firestorms now raging through pine forests and dry scrub from San Diego to the mountains north of Los Angeles.
item | USA Today via Daily Weird
~I've no idea how this rate of home building compares to other California counties but the numbers suggest an added dimension(s) to extent of the destruction. (A 'location' realtors are reluctant to talk about?)
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~In America if you can afford it (or are ill-informed) you're free to build you family's home surrounded by thousands of acres of kindling.
Posted by Stubbornson at October 26, 2007 01:18 AM