Yesterday’s post on wildfire suggested that it will take awhile for the “new new wisdom” to be accepted. Last night’s CBS News proved my point.
A report (annoying ad comes before the news report) from CBS reporter Sandra Hughes showed hundreds of homes built to “shelter-in-place” standards and found that “not one home had even been touched by the flames.” So what does Hughes learn from this? That people should not be allowed to build to shelter-in-place standards because it will encourage them to build in fire-prone areas.
