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Photo: Red Car Property Neighbor, September 15, 2017. Last week, LA City Fire Department began posting "No Smoking, No Discarding of Burning Objects" signs in the Hillside Area surrounding the Red Car Property and Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract (above photo at Allesandro and Rosebud - the sole vehicle entrance to the steep Semi Tropic hillside).
Photo: Red Car Property Neighbor, September 15, 2017. The municipal code sections are referenced on the signs, here seen at the site of the 2016 Silver Lake Fire at the end of Corralitas Drive. The LAFD has the authority to place these signs in Hillside Areas.
Photo: Red Car Property Neighbor, September 15, 2017. While brush may be cleared in many of the areas now, brush is often often dry for months before it is cleared. Neighbors who've seen the same signs all over the Hollywood Hills for decades, noted their more recent proliferation in Beachwood Canyon and requested the signs for our neighborhood. Several neighbors provided a list of suggested locations to the LAFD fire marshal overseeing the placement of the signs.
Photo: Jay Lieske, September 23, 2017. Indeed, the fire marshal compared parts of our neighborhood to neighborhoods in the Hollywood Hills. We have many isolated areas like this one on Adelbert, right up against brush areas on narrow winding Hillside streets with no through traffic, in addition to public staircases and paper streets that are hidden and open to the Red Car Property.
Neighbors welcomed the signs as a reminder we live in a tinder dry hillside neighborhood. Neighbors hope the signs get the attention of smokers who carelessly discard their cigarettes in dry brush areas. At least one neighbor documented discarded cigarettes in parts of the neighborhood in the request for signs. Neighbors noted areas where partying, homeless camps and squatter houses have attracted problems.
I've asked for these signs for 25 years. I'm grateful to the Red Car Property Neighbor who was able to devote time and energy into spearheading this project to making it a reality.
