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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Switching gears (and not sure if this was covered in the previous 30 pages). But I don’t understand the folks all over the Internet who stayed behind with their house to “save it” until the very last minute. I absolutely understand the impulse to protect your home, particularly if it’s uninsured. But what do people think they are going to use within their household to fight this massive fire? It feels like a foolish attempt that will cause them to be left behind and require a rescue that endangers EMS personnel.[/quote]

It seems like with every fire there's always that one person who did manage to save (or seemingly save) his house by battling the flames with the hose. We've all seen the photos of an entire neighborhood wiped out except for that one house. I image that is what encourages some people to think they have a chance.

Based on some of the posts on here, I'd like to point out that Altadena is a very mixed area. While Pacific Palisades was very wealthy, Altadena had everything from mansions to tiny 1950s bunaglows and affluent yuppies to working class families and beautiful 1930s Spanish colonials to ugly ranches. In many ways the devastation of northern Altadena is the worst of all the devastations in these fires because that's a kind of neighborhood whose dynamics is forever changed. While I'm pretty confident Pacific Palisides will be rebuilt to look pretty much the same it did last week, that's not going to be the case in Altadena. [/quote]

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