What percentage of wildfires are in the Coastal Zone?

Of those in the Coastal Zone, what percentage were on developed land?

Of those that were within the Coastal Zone and on developed land, what percentage of wildfires resulted from Coastal Commission decisions?

I think an honest answer to those questions exposes the faulty logic of your campaign against the Coastal Commission.

One more question — just how much brush clearing is enough in areas prone to wildfires? From a planning and ecological perspective, it would be much better to avoid developing in areas prone to natural disasters such as wildfires, floods and earthquakes.

Any fire marshall worth his salt would have told you so.

Although none of the fires this week, are along the coast - they may indeed rampage that way if the wind shifts. Santa Barbara was definitely in the Coastal Zone, and so was Santa Cruz.

The time to fight fires is before the fire is raging.

For any governor to say,

“we are very fortunate that we have the best and the most aggressive, best trained, most courageous firefighters in the world …”

is totally missing the point.

Yes, these men are heroes….but why put them in harms way if we don’t have to?

And we don’t.

We are fighting these massive fires, because of a severe meltdown of responsibility between the State Fire Marshall - the only one responsible to protect lives under the California Cons, and resource agencies like the California Coastal Commission, the focus of SINS OF COMMISSION.

By failing to permit the clearance of ESHA in large unbroken swaths, the California Coastal Commission and other agencies have jeopardized the very resource they are supposed to protect

No one…certainly not the environment, and definitely not the people benefits. The other point that bears repeating is Fire fighting is big visual news, trimming ESHA isn’t .

Its high time the Secretary of the Interior steps to clean California’s house - since its obvious California cant’ or won’t because of self-interest and completion for $$ between agencies.