San Diego Fire

by  Roberta Murphy This has been a tough year for America’s Finest City. There has been destruction of homes by wildfires and landslides. Then there’s the San Diego real estate market which has taken a needed serious slide that has resulted in a record number of foreclosures and short sales. But all is not gloom and doom for San Diego County property owners. Those whose homes were damaged or destroyed by the 2007 fires and La Jolla landslides–and who suffered at least $10,000 in damages...Read Full Story

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The County of San Diego is seeking full staffing and other resources from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) for this year’s peak fire season.    A 5-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote directed the county’s chief administrative officer (CAO) to prepare a letter to be signed by the five county supervisors requesting an executive order by Governor Schwarzenegger to increase wildfire protection, preparedness and education levels in San Diego County...Read Full Story

It has been so hard to post blogs these last few days. Communications have been very personal: Telephone calls (friends, family and clients) and emails have dominated free time.Active Rain's Sharon Filbig of Escondido was evacuated and is staying in Orange County. She emailed this morning, wondering what is going on. I responded with an update--which I will share with you here. These are more random notes than any kind of blog. We still don't have an accurate picture of the total disaster--or...Read Full Story

SAN DIEGO -- Border Patrol agents searching an underground drainage channel in the Tijuana River Valley Wednesday found a badly injured man who may have been left for dead by a group of fellow illegal immigrants.The federal personnel decided to walk through the runoff channel just north of the U.S.-Mexico line after detaining six suspected undocumented immigrants in the area shortly before dawn, authorities said.Reaching a spot near the bottom of a 30-foot-deep vertical drainage pipe around...Read Full Story