California Fires Create New Problem: Thousands of Refugees

[DonViejo]

Horses left to survive on beaches. Families with nothing but the clothes they wear. Parts of Malibu are uninhabitable.

Liza Foreman
11.15.18 4:45 AM ET

SANTA MONICA, California—When his brother woke him early on Friday morning, warning him of an evacuation call for the fire heading towards their family home in Malibu, surfer Amour Armony thought he was joking.

But five days later, his home—like many of Malibu’s residents’ houses—and all of his family’s belongings, are history. The Woolsey Fire is estimated to have wiped out at least 400 homes and official figures say that might rise to as many as 5,000. (The Camp Fire in Northern California has swallowed more than 9,000 homes.)

“All I own now is the clothing I was wearing that day,” Armony said at a town-hall meeting for displaced Malibu locals on Tuesday night.

Armony’s father was out of town with his two- and five-year-old brothers. Meanwhile, Armony and his brother spent most of Friday ferrying the family’s horses to the nearby safety of the beach, leaving them on the sand as other horse owners did from the neighborhood. They returned home and stayed until around 5 p.m. when the flames barreling towards were finally too close.

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[Ohiogal]

1. Is California getting any Federal aid or help at all?

Sorry if this is a dumb question ..... we have thousands of soldiers sitting around twiddling their thumbs on the southern border, couldn't they be helping people in California evacuate?

[Achilleaze]

2. "I propose we build a wall from Mexico to Canada." - Dirty Donny* (R)

"And make California pay for it." - Dirty Donny* (R)

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief