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Posted By: Chris Counts

Since I have lived in the coastal California hill country most of my life, I worry about fire more than anything, even theft. That's why my best cards are in safety deposit boxes and I can only look at the scans. David, as for your suggestion about spraying mist, the air here is so hot and dry right now that any water not applied directly to a fire or in its direct path would certainly evaporate quickly. As a former volunteer firefighter, it is my opinion that the problem causing the fires is twofold. First, builders keep putting up homes on steep hillsides covered with dense, flammable brush. And second, natural fires have been supressed for so long that fires are far more catastophic than they once were ...