Dixie Fire

We didn't get to it.

But victims of the Dixie Fire, which is another fire caused by Pacific Gas and Electric, PG&E, they had a temporary ordinance by the people in their county that they could live on an RV or a trailer on top of their burned-out lot while they're trying to rebuild their home.

And this fire was over five years ago.

The ordinance has expired, so now they have to leave.

We look at the fire risk.

I think people don't realize that when we look at the Dixie Fire and the Camp Fire and the Eaton Fire, a lot of these fires were likely started because of transmission lines, electrical transmission lines.

And we've got companies like PG&E and Southern California Edison being sued because of the wildfires.

And, you know, we don't make the link between, well, we need more electricity because we are trying to build more data centers and the wildfires that, you know, we worry about.

That's my job.

The biggest thing that this park is kind of known for is some of y'all might remember in 2021 the big fire that happened, which was called the Dixie Fire.

Do you remember that? Vaguely.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, the Dixie Fire went on for months.

It burned nearly, I don't know, a million acres.

Okay.

So there was like a huge piece that the philanthropy and academics had to pick up like through CAPLA to do soil testing to figure out something none of us have had to figure out to that extent.

Like Dixie Fire, they had a huge lead field that probably predated the fire, but then the EPA came and cleaned it up, right? And then Camp Fire, they too had a huge lead issue and FEMA paid for that.

In your case, there wasn't the money for it, though, and the resources were not made available to the city or county of Los Angeles.

And the second thing that happened was because of the urban conflagration piece of it, the smoke damage was out of hand in people's standing homes, and it was a lonely road for them, and many of them died.

And I'm Ken Duvall with your headlines for Wednesday, August 26th.

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