Posted On: October 24, 2007, 1:37 pm CDT

Posted By: Ohioan

Here's another example of "too little, too late." Southern California has, and always will be a virtual tinderbox. Southern California never gets enough rain and never will. Brush fires have, and always will be an annual phenomenon. So why hasn't anyone developed a plan to PREVENT things from getting out of hand like they are now? What's needed is a an "immediate response plan" that would mobilize LARGE firefighting aircraft to soak an area when the fire is still SMALL, not wait several days until it gets out of control. Think of the magnitude of human and ecomonic resources that have been wasted, yes wasted, trying to control this fire without success. Property losses will be in the hundreds of millions. The cost of mobilizing a task force would certainly be cost-justified. Like the song says "it never rains in sourthern California....".