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Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 8, 2016. We documented the quick demise of the huge Eucalyptus on the upper part of the slope in 2015. It's in an Adelbert backyard, adjacent to the Red Car Property. The lower dead Eucalyptus died a few months later. It's on the Red Car Property. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 8, 2016. A third and even larger Eucalyptus died this year within the Silver Lake Court, a public right-of-way. High voltage lines appear to pass through the Eucalyptus adjacent to the dead tree. A City crew cleared brush from the paper street months ago, but left the tree.
Silver Lake Court is a City "paper street," west of and adjacent to the Red Car Property. Worth noting, in the 2003, failed 75 home development application for the Red Car Property, this was identified as the "open space lot." The open space lot included the slope contained by a giant retaining wall.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 16, 2016. The stand of dead trees is on the Red Car Property's Lot C, at India Street. They are directly below power lines. The trees died in 2013. We don't know why this is acceptable to LAFD Brush Unit or LADWP. We submit photos of them every year to the Brush Unit.
During the June 19, 2016 Silver Lake Fire, neighbors on Roselin, and Riverside Dr, upslope from this location, witnessed 6 - 8" burning embers flying by their houses.
As of today, neighbors report no brush clearance has occurred on the Red Car Property, other than the previously mentioned clearance around the construction fence. One neighbor reported seeing a LAFD Fire Marshall drive in and out of the property north of India Street yesterday.
