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RUSH: This is George in Blue Jay, California. Hi, George. Nice to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019m a retired firefighter that spent 27 years fighting brushfires in Southern California. I have to tell you you\u2019re right on the money. Brushfires are a natural phenomena that are good for the environment. Where we get into problems is the environmentalists that won\u2019t let us thin the trees like what happened in Lake Tahoe or people that build a house and put shake shingle roofs on and we cannot protect their houses, that\u2019s where we get into trouble. But they\u2019re a natural phenomena, and they\u2019re good for the environment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, we\u2019re looking something up. I had a story in one of my books about a guy who essentially built a moat all around his house. He lived in a fire-prone area and he built this moat around his house, this big trench and filled it with water to stop the fire. And it did. The guy got cited and fined for violating environmental regulations. It was the same thing that was happening up at Lake Tahoe. If you recall there were people that said, ‘To hell with the regulations, I\u2019m going to go out and clear the brush. I\u2019m going to get rid of this deadwood before the fire gets to my house,\u2019 and they were also in trouble. The environmentalists got mad at them. The idea you can\u2019t touch this stuff, that it\u2019s pristine and all we do is screw it up, it should be here and not have to interact with us, is obscene. What do you think the big problem putting these fires out right now is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, right now a lot of it is just the training. We have a lot of firefighters who aren\u2019t sufficiently trained to do it, like up here where I am up in Blue Jay, California, —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where\u2019s that? For people that don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Lake Arrowhead, California, that\u2019s where Running Springs is, that\u2019s where the big fire is. Now, I don\u2019t leave, I stay here and protect my house, and, if I didn\u2019t stay here and protect my house, I could come back and it would be burned down like what happened to about 200 homes around here just because the water system, they didn\u2019t put enough money into the water system, they spent it on something else instead of fire protection. So there is a problem; it has to be a priority.<\/p>\n

RUSH: George, what could you do to protect your house if the fire is headed for you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What do I do? First of all, I make sure that all the combustibles are away from the house, make sure I don\u2019t have a shake shingle roof and I have a fire hydrant right on the corner and I hook up fire hoses and I get out and actually can protect it after it goes by. But what happens is, if there\u2019s nobody there to protect it, and the little fires keep going around it, then, of course, the house is going to burn down because there\u2019s nobody there to protect it. <\/p>\n

RUSH: What about this gel substance that they\u2019re using to coat houses with fire retardant, does that really work?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that really works and Class A Foam really works and you can foam your own house. You can actually buy foam that you can spray your house, and firefighters in LA County and Ventura County are using Class A Foam, and houses that they don\u2019t want to stay there, they don\u2019t have the manpower, they can spray the house with the foam and leave, and the foam protects the house very well. So there are a lot of things that homeowners can do to protect their own house that right now is just — I would do if I was a homeowner in Southern California living in a brush area, which I am right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate your call, George. It\u2019s been very enlightening. Tell me something. Before you go, I\u2019ve heard about this gel stuff. I don\u2019t know how you put it on the house, but I guess you douse it with some kind of a hose or something, and the gel goes on, and it is very fire retardant, and then you rinse it off —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — once the fire is gone, it\u2019s gone. Now, I\u2019m looking at 30 and 40 foot flames. Are you telling me this gel will repel that kind of fire?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, the fire won\u2019t go through. It\u2019s a fire repellent, and it is designed so the fire will not reach the combustible beneath the gel. It repels the fire. Now, if it\u2019s on there for a long period of time, yes, it will wear off, it\u2019s only effective for a short period of time, from what I understand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But, you know, right before the fire, you cover your house with this gel, yes, it will protect it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate that, George, thanks much for the call and best of luck to you out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Mark in Lakeside, California, Mark. Nice to have you with us. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s an honor. I usually am a regular listener, but the last couple of days I haven\u2019t been able to tune you in. I\u2019m a survivor of the Cedar fire from 2003 in the Southern California area east of East County San Diego, and this current fire, where we live is about five miles south of the Witch fire and about five miles north of the Harris fire. So we didn\u2019t really have any real problems. We didn\u2019t get evacuated or anything, but there\u2019s several things that were different from the two fires. One, as with the Cedar fire, the community outpouring, just the people there that were helping, backhoes, flatbeds with graders on them, water trucks, all that stuff, plus all the community outpouring to Qualcomm, I think on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday they actually put out a call to hold off on items until the weekend because they actually had too much. <\/p>\n

That was before FEMA showed up, or I shouldn\u2019t say before FEMA showed up, but, man, anything that FEMA can do to help us, I\u2019m sure we\u2019re going to appreciate, and they\u2019re an after responder as opposed to first responders, as they should be. They\u2019re there to provide backup, and I know as one San Diegan, we\u2019ll welcome it. But, you know, talking about the environmental aspects of this, you know, the brush clearing, there\u2019s been a little more of that going on in the last couple years because they learned that from the Cedar fire. Also there have been a couple of communities that were actually designed with this type of thing in mind, and they experienced zero loss. Forest Ranch up by Escondido is one that I read about in the paper. But, again, it was an extraordinary event. I never thought I\u2019d see anything like the Cedar fire, but, you know, wow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re out there, but let me tell you what we\u2019re seeing. Those of us who watch — and we\u2019ve had a bunch of people that called from San Diego yesterday — what we\u2019re seeing is 100% self-reliance, we are seeing people band together to help each other. You just mentioned they had more supplies at Qualcomm than they needed. We\u2019re not hearing a bunch of whining and moaning, people are not asking, ‘Where\u2019s the government?\u2019 The only people complaining are the Democrats and the Drive-By Media. The people involved in this have accepted it for what it is, dealing with it for what it is, it is what it is. They can\u2019t change it. They\u2019re dealing with it and they\u2019re doing it in an optimistic way and it\u2019s very admirable to watch the way people are handling this disaster out there, that\u2019s what we who are not there who watch it on TV see, and it\u2019s inspiring, in the midst of all this destruction and what has to be, you know, again, I put myself in the shoes of people who have lost everything or have been on the verge of losing everything, and it\u2019s nowhere any of us would want to be, and I watch \u2019em, and I listen to them on television dealing with this sort of thing, and they\u2019re asked questions of people, Drive-Bys are begging them to complain, begging them to whine, begging them to blame somebody, and they\u2019re not doing that, and it\u2019s a great lesson for everybody who\u2019s watching this to learn how to deal with these kinds of things that happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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