EDITOR: In your May 13 article headlined
“Croy fire area homes to receive inspections,” you alert
residents in the Croy fire region to upcoming California Department
of Forestry inspections intended “to make sure residents living in
areas susceptible to wildfires learned their lessons.”
EDITOR:
In your May 13 article headlined “Croy fire area homes to receive inspections,” you alert residents in the Croy fire region to upcoming California Department of Forestry inspections intended “to make sure residents living in areas susceptible to wildfires learned their lessons.”
I sincerely hope such inspections will be even more intense in the still heavily fuel-laden areas of Santa Clara County’ s hillside district that have not yet burned. Like the Croy Road region, many of these regions have steep, narrow, winding roads, dense brush, and hundreds of non-conforming homes and other structures.
I would hope the major lesson of the Croy Fire would be that these other areas are tinder boxes of greater threat to the community in general than the burned-out Croy Road region.
Are the Croy Road residents the whipping boys (and girls), the low-hanging fruit, the source of newsworthy household words, the distraction that will be used to give the illusion the county and CDF are properly addressing this threat?
Of course the Croy Fire region should strive to meet fire codes, like everyone else, and my guess is they have “learned their lesson” already whether or not CDF checks up on them, but have the county and CDF learned their lesson?
Roy Guist, Morgan Hill
