[news] Class, Race and the California Wildfires

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Teresa Gutierrez | Oct 25, 2007

Westlake [an area in Los Angeles where many immigrants and Latin at s live] has the "highest urban fire incidence in the nation: one of its two fire stations was inundated by an incredible 20,000 emergency calls in 1993" [...On the other hand, wealthy Malibu homeowners benifit] from an extraordinary range of insurance, land use and disaster relief subsidies. 

[M]ost of the "119 fatalities from tenement fires in the Westlake and Downtown areas might have been prevented had slumlords been held to even minimal standards of building safety."

[Followed by a second article **"Burn Baby Burn – The California Celebrity Fires"** from Znet by Greg Palast]

  


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