Posted Jul 26, 2016, 5:57 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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Originally Posted by Tourmaline
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Its hard to wrap my head around what happened.
484 homes burned.
As a direct result of the Bel Air Fire, Los Angeles initiated a series of laws and fire safety policies. These included the banning of wood shingle roofs in new construction and one of the most stringent brush clearance policies in the United States.
It appears that those wood shingle roofs were a fire waiting to happen.
Last edited by CityBoyDoug; Jul 26, 2016 at 6:46 PM.
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