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Posted by: thepinetree on 08/21/2023 02:17 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 08/21/2023 02:17 PM
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Eight Years Post Butte Fire, Calaveras Still Has Significant Evacuation Needs ~Community Action Project & Calaveras Planning Coalition
San Andreas, CA...It has been eight years since the Butte fire destroyed over 500 homes and left five dead. Survivors of the fire can attest to the importance of the routes they used to evacuate the fire. The Calaveras County 1996 General Plan failed to address emergency evacuation routes. The continuing failure of the 2019 General Plan Update to comprehensively address this subject is one of the reasons the Calaveras Planning Coalition filed a legal challenge to that plan. For more information about this and other issues neglected in the 2019 General Plan and what you can do personally to improve the situation, go to calaverascap.com/list/.
The good news is that Calaveras Ready recently completed the Draft Calaveras County Evacuation and Access Needs Assessment and Preparedness Plan. The consultants asked people to identify locations on their most likely evacuation routes where road capacity bottlenecks, landslides, flooding, or other conditions could impede their evacuation. Over 200 people responded, identifying over 750 such impediments to their evacuation. These were consolidated into over 375 projects primarily along Highways 4, 49, 12, and 26 but also on some County roads.
We hope that Caltrans, Calaveras County Public Works, the Calaveras Council of Governments and others will work together to secure the State and Federal funds available to complete these projects. Someday the life of you, your family, or your friends may depend upon a safe and effective emergency evacuation route.
You can review the draft plan and send your gratitude and other comments to Calaveras Ready through August 31 at https://calaverasready.com/.
Sincerely,
Megan Fiske
Outreach Coordinator, Community Action Project & Calaveras Planning Coalition
San Andreas
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 14:40:06
By: Anonymous
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I'M NOT A FUK'N CROOK hunter made me do it
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 17:53:36
By: Anonymous
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Does anyone know what this guy keeps talking about all the time? Is this a child?
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 20:29:07
By: Anonymous
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FUK OFF SNIVELER
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 15:14:21
By: Anonymous
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Is White Pines still holding Sky Floating Lantern Festival on Labor Day weekend?
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 17:53:15
By: Anonymous
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not in years, no.
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 15:22:03
By: Anonymous
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How many of you know the top fire person for E.P. Fire makes close to $200,000 a year in salary and bennies, the secretary, nearly $140,000 in salary and bennies. Better start paying attention to what those at the top are making when they want to raise taxes again for fire! I’m all in favor for fire fighters, but this sounds excessive, some of these people retire at nearly 100% of their salary, retire when they are 50, sounds like a great gig, or a great scam!
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 16:25:43
By: Anonymous
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^^^ CCWD must think there school teachers or fire fighters.
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Re: there school teachers
Posted on: 2023-08-21 17:28:53
By: Anonymous
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Wow.
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 17:50:49
By: Anonymous
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$200k a year all in with benefits? Hardly excessive for the chief of fire in a major wild fire region. Especially given the lakes, snow, and other considerations.
We *should* be paying our teachers closer to this. Then they wouldn't sound like the rest of the adults who proudly claim to be 'raised' here, but are unable to properly use an apostrophe.
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Posted on: 2023-08-22 11:44:42
By: Anonymous
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This is all great and I wish everyone could make $200k per year. The problem is these are all at some level taxpayer funded salaries.
At some point you run out of private sector money. We will get at a tipping point when the majority of salaries in the US are taxpayer funded jobs.
All true GDP increases to pay public salaries have to originate in the private sector!!!
Yes, public employees pay taxes but at the end of the day these only lesson the burden on the private sector but do not eliminate it.
Even if valuable and needed all public sector jobs even if they are in law enforcement, fire, education or more are all structurally fiscally parasitic.
They used to be called public servants!!! Now the public is just slaves to the "servants".
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Posted on: 2023-08-22 11:49:53
By: Anonymous
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Everyone should remember that even entry level private sector jobs contribute more to the true GDP than any public sector job.
Yes, even the person working at a drive through or checking your groceries contributes more to the GDP than anyone working in the public sector.
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 17:54:06
By: Anonymous
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How is this a scam?
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Posted on: 2023-08-21 19:41:15
By: Anonymous
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It’s his town. Let all his friends bring their big trucks over when his house catches fire. They can stand around and complain how much the utilities and local first responders make.
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Posted on: 2023-08-22 07:25:09
By: Anonymous
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And todays rant from Buttner is…
Yawn ..
What an incredibly sad angry man
I actually pity him.
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Posted on: 2023-08-22 23:40:31
By: Anonymous
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Once again history is lost on the mindless. The evacuation of the surrounding area was completed successfully during the Old Gluch Fire. The after action report stated that the evacuation should be a state wide model. Calfire ignored the findings. Had they followed through regarding the report many citizens may not have lost their lives years later. The evacuation program was very comprehensive and multi level. Calfire TCU was ground zero for this success however here we are years later thanks to Calfire attempting to figure out what was already figured out, typical!
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