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You're Getting Warmer, Warmer ...
Sprawling homes susceptible to flames in California |
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24 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 3:27 PM on 24 Oct 2007 The impact of the still-raging California fires on humans and their homes is tragic and lamentable -- but far from unexpected, thanks to homeowners' tendency to sprawl out and nestle right up to the fire line. Some two-thirds of new building in southern California in the past decade was on tinder-dry, fire-susceptible land, says historian Mike Davis. "You might as well be ... |
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