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Lake Tahoe Fire Estimated to Incur More than $25 Million in Losses

West News • June 26, 2007
A wildfire in Lake Tahoe, Calif., that has destroyed at least 220 homes and forced about 1,000 people to flee their neighborhoods along the Lake's southern edge as of Monday is anticipated to ...

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Subject: The Northeast is not Florida & Wildfires do burn houses

Posted On: June 28, 2007, 7:31 am CDT
Posted By: Jane Logan
Comment:
The Northeast has a totally different hurricane exposure and building codes than Florida. To compare the Northeast and FL exposures-or worse, use FL losses to model Northeast hurricane losses is totally flawed.

Seems to me I saw a lot of houses burned to the ground by the wildfires. Looks like people are making stupid lifestyle decisions to live in the path of wildfires.
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Fire Insurance Recovery Greg Seago
Jun 30, 2007, 2:47 am
The Northeast is not Florida & Wildfires do burn houses Jane Logan
Jun 28, 2007, 7:31 am
Flawed Logic Tom
Jun 27, 2007, 1:27 pm
People who live near wild fires should just move... Jane Logan
Jun 26, 2007, 6:48 pm
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