This is when it gets disheartening to see workers with cigarettes hanging from their mouth. Why can't they wait to take a break? Hiring cheap labor isn't always the best answer, but that is how some of the old Santa Barbara privileged like to roll. Old families like tradition and they've made hiring under the table to escape labor costs a way of life. They do it year after year and it works for them. They don't seem to mind if they depend on henchmen to keep the crews in line, some sick stories are told in the hills of beautiful Santa Barbara. Everyone else is not as happy with that arrangement, most of all during fire season. Sure methheads need work too, but can't you find a foreman that can stay off the pipe?
It hasn't been that long since evacuating a large part of town was reality. Yes, it could be worse if a fire sweeps down into our little tinder box of a town, no one is that safe. And here we sit at the mercy of faulty equipment, wealthy cheapskates full of pride with how they play their slave labor games.
Memories are short.
2009 Cody Duncan: Here’s a few more pics of the Jesusita fire
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters struggled Friday to get ahead of a raging wildfire that has moved dangerously close to heavily populated areas around this idyllic coastal city and forced the evacuation of an roughly 30,000 people.Larry Williamson saved his Mountain Drive home from the Tea Fire. He was unable to save his Electric Truck.
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