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October of 2003, Southern California experienced the most devastating
wild land/urban interface fire disaster in its history. According
to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection,
a total of 739,597 acres were burned, 3,631 homes were destroyed
and 24 lives were lost, including one firefighter. The aftermath
saw even greater loss of life wherein 16 people perished in a
flash flood/mudslide in an area of San Bernardino County due to
the loss of vegetation impacted by the fire. |
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Governor's Blue Ribbon Fire Commission was established to conduct
a review of the efforts to fight the October 2003 wildfires and
present recommendations to make California less vulnerable to
disasters of such enormity in the future. |
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| You
can download and or view the Governor's Blue Ribbon Fire Commission
report by clicking on the icon below.
WARNING this is a Very
Large .pdf file (aproximately 20 megs in size) |
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| For smoothest
possible operations, you will need to have at least version
6.0 of the Adobe Acrobat Reader application, if you do
not have the application, you can get it Free of charge by clicking
on the Acrobat Reader graphic above. |
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| Saving
Documents to your Computer: Either right click
(control click on a Mac) on the above Blue Ribbon Report icon
, then select "Save Target As.." or left click on
the icon which will then start your Adobe Acrobat application,
you can then click on the floppy diskette icon (towards
upper left hand portion of your computer screen) in order to save
the document. |
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