Posted On: October 23, 2007, 2:47 pm CDT

Posted By: bob

I always wonder what the property owner and the insurance underwriter are thinking about having a house exposed to the brush they have in southern California. What about the basic concepts of clear space, fire proof roofs, etc? It's real hard to have much sympathy for total lack of common sense on the part of both the insurance companies and the property owners. It isn't a matter of whether or not a catastrophic fire will occur, it's just a matter of when. Were proper safeguards taken for the inevitability of it? obviously not. and don't say it isn't preventable - it's just a matter of wanting to do it bad enough. let's see if the building codes allow them all to rebuild and 10 or twenty years from now it will all happen again.