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Article: Grant for fire prevention went unused
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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LOS ANGELES -- Months before a wildfire burned 280 square miles
at the edge of Los Angeles, a little-known group was awarded a
$178,000 grant to clear flammable brush and tree limbs to protect a
mountain neighborhood in the Angeles National Forest.
The work proposed for 90 acres in Big Tujunga Canyon was never
done, and the grant was rescinded two days before the massive blaze
ignited Aug. 26. Sixty homes were burned in the rugged canyon, by
far the greatest concentration of property damage in the huge
wildfire.
The ferocity of the fire makes it difficult to say how many
homes, if any, might have been spared if the work had been
completed. But failure to do the job offers a glimpse into a ...