In The
News
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1. Disaster Recovery on Public Radio's "Marketplace
Money"
September 02, 2005
Topics include Public Adjusters as discussed by Amy Bach of United
Policyholders and filing bankruptcy after the new laws take effect which might
effect disaster survivors unless legislation is passed to loosen the
restrictions for disaster survivors. Listen to the report
here:
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2. Insurance coverage on Public Radio's "Marketplace
Money"
June 12, 2004
Kai speaks to George Kehrer, the Executive Director of Community Assisting
Recovery, Inc., on ways homeowners can protect their properties. Listen to the
report
here:
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3. California Firefighter's Widow Disputes State's Claim of What
Caused Husband's Death
Woman Believes Backfire -- Not Main Fire
State Reports -- Was Cause
11-06-2005
Joe Wolfcale, Marin Independent Journal (Marin, CA)
Two years after her husband's death, the widow of Novato firefighter Steven
Rucker is a changed woman.
She's lost 40 pounds - and completed studies in fire technology.
She's also keeping the pressure on state fire officials for an explanation
as to why her 38-year-old husband died in the Cedar fire in San Diego County on
Oct. 29, 2003.
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4. Democrats, Others Criticize Wildfire
Cuts
11-01-2005
By ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writer
Trying to make up for the cost of Hurricane Katrina, the White House
has proposed eliminating a $500 million reserve fund to fight fires in heavy
wildfire years. Environmentalists and Western Democrats criticized the plan
Tuesday as shortsighted and risky.
"This fund - developed on a bipartisan basis - ensured that fire fighting
costs could be met," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
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5. Out of the Ashes: Woman's home, artistic work are reborn after
the Old Fire
Mari Nicholson, SB Sun Staff Writer
11/09/2005
Artist Cindy Rinne lost a majority of
her materials and supplies in the Old Fire.
And her home.
The result, according to Rinne, is that her art quilts are stronger for
it.
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6. Board proposes loan to modernize fire-ravaged Cedar Glen
Andrew Silva, SB Sun Staff Writer
11/06/05
The small mountain community hardest hit by the Old
Fire two years ago may get a $10 million boost from the county Board of
Supervisors Tuesday to kick start the rebuilding effort.
Cedar Glen near Lake Arrowhead saw more than 300 homes incinerated when the
fire tore through the narrow canyon where the homes sat shoulder to shoulder in
dense forest.
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7. It's now Katrina vs. wildfire funds
OUR VIEW:
Fire prevention shouldn't be the pawn in helping hurricane victims come out
ahead.
11/04/2005
The damage from
Hurricane Katrina was so profound that it demands an immediate response. But
President Bush's plan to draw down the reserve for fighting wildfires to pay for
hurricane disaster relief is itself disastrous particularly in the nation's most
urban forest.
Ruth Wenstrom, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino National Forest, put it
in stark terms: "We don't want to pit one disaster against another."
8. County cuts tree-removal competition
Megan Blaney,
Staff Writer 11/06/2005
The local little guys
have been squeezed out of the big-money contracts in the tree- removal business
in the San Bernardino Mountains, and the Board of Supervisors has opened the
door to a rich politically connected outsider.
That outsider is AshBritt Inc., which recently made news by winning a
federal contract worth up to $1 billion to clean up after
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9. Local disaster risks persist
Guy McCarthy, Staff
Writer
11/04/2005
Elected leaders and land-use planners are placing
residents at enormous risk until they learn more about managing the Inland
Empire's burgeoning growth in fire, flood and earthquake country, experts and
academics said Friday at Cal State San Bernardino.
"We all know what an incredibly fragile region we live in," said university
President Albert K. Karnig, speaking in a campus building less than a mile from
a mountain-building earthquake rift known as the San Andreas Fault. "Land-use
decisions will ensure the region's future or place it in extreme
jeopardy."
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10. Fire recovery inching along as second anniversary
approaches
October 22, 2005
GIG CONAUGHTON - NC Times Staff
Writer
SAN DIEGO ----- Two years after the worst wildfires in state history
incinerated more than 2,400 homes across San Diego County, just over two-thirds
of fire victims are in some stage of active recovery.
They have rebuilt, are rebuilding or have filed plans indicating they
intend to rebuild.