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Knock! Knock! Land Shark? Mormons?

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Fire inspectors out door knocking for fire prevention but there is no door to knock on for the fuel infested Washington Park.

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It’s a change many residents didn’t anticipate, coastal neighborhoods, long thought to be relatively safe, are now officially in the wildfire danger zone.”We presume in Carmel that we’re fairly safe,” Michael Spicer said.

However, the new Cal Fire hazard maps show otherwise. One Monterey resident said he wasn’t surprised by the updated risk designation.

“It doesn’t surprise me that it’s, on a high, fire zone. Yes. Because, as you know, we live in a forest,” Leonard Levenson said.

In response, Cal Fire has deployed six inspectors to visit homeowners, educating them about vegetation management, structure hardening, and defensible space, the key factors that can reduce wildfire damage.

Knock! Knock! Land Shark? Mormons?

Meetings Don’t Solve Fire Hazards

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Washington Park is a tinderbox of dead weeds and trees. But Dominick Sinicropi says leave it be. City spends $100,000 to have the effects of global warming on wildfire.

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The meeting will discuss “near future efforts to lessen the threats from wildfires in our wildland interface areas,” The meeting comes after concerns from residents about the amount of dead brush, trees and other fuel they say could help a wildfire move quickly through the roughly 20-acre George Washington Park and spread to nearby homes. At the Jan. 16 P.G. City Council meeting, resident Kevin Hanley told the council that fuel at the park should be thinned to prevent a “catastrophic fire.”

However, not everyone agrees, including monarch butterfly buff Dominick Sinicropi, who told The Pine Cone last month that “instead of blaming natural areas for devastating fires,” including the recent fires in Southern California that destroyed thousands of structures, P.G. should be prioritizing measures to reduce causes from people, including from “outdoor barbecues” and “overhead power
lines.”

Meetings Don’t Solve Fire Hazards

Do The Fires In L.A. Teach Us Anything?

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Poor forest management is not just in the Sierras or Southern California.

At the Jan. 16 Pacific Grove City Council meeting, citizen Kevin Hanley made a plea to Councilmembers to reduce the amount of fuel load — dead dry brush, downed trees, etc. — in George Washington Park, a 20-acre, thickly wooded greenspace. Doing so, Hanley said, would reduce the chances of a fire spreading to nearby houses.

Kevin is not wrong. Here’s a few snapshots of Washington Park just feet from houses. C’mon eco freaks and tree huggers, it’s a park so treat it like one.

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Do The Fires In L.A. Teach Us Anything?

Vicious Dog Bites Best Friend

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Yesterday an 11-year-old was bitten at a park and had to undergo rabies shots. If you do not know the dog, don’t go near it.Dogd Adam Ah

At about 2 p.m. Oct. 31, a 76-year P.G. man was walking in George Washington Park when he came across a German shepherd and, as people who like dogs often do, asked if the animal was friendly so he could pet it. But things didn’t go as planned. “The owners advised their dog was friendly, and the victim began to pet the dog when the dog lunged and bit the victim’s left calf,” Pacific Grove Police Acting Chief Brian Anderson told The Pine Cone Monday.

Vicious Dog Bites Best Friend

 

Washington Park Suicide Was In The Restroom

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Alicia Austin used a handgun to end her life at about 8:05 p.m. May 16 in a bathroom at George Washington Park, according to Pacific Grove Police. Numerous young children and teenagers were in the park at the time.

“We received a call of a shot heard in the area of George Washington Park,” said police Cmdr. Tom Uretsky. “As one of our officers was responding to that, he saw some juveniles running out of the park. They had gone into the restroom and had found the victim there.”

Uretsky declined to say what type of gun was used. He also wouldn’t say whether the woman died in the men’s or women’s restroom for fear it would become a “tourist attraction” for curiosity seekers.

Washington Park Suicide Was In The Restroom