{"id":18179,"date":"2004-04-02T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T03:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=18179"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:22:56","slug":"regulations-keep-forest-fire-victims-rebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2004\/04\/02\/regulations-keep-forest-fire-victims-rebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulations keep Forest Fire Victims from Rebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of my stronger memories from 2003 is listening to talk show host Roger Hedgecock, who is based in San Diego, describe the enormity of the forest fires that took place in California last November.<\/p>\n
As luck would have it, Hedgecock guest-hosted the Rush Limbaugh program at the time, so millions of Americans like myself, for whom the forest fires were a far-away story, suddenly felt as though we were part of it.<\/p>\n
It was an illusion, of course. Most Americans weren’t part of it at all. We went back to our daily lives and our air-conditioned houses while the victims of the California forest fires, like the victims of other forest fires, were left to pick up the pieces.<\/p>\n
Only in some cases, it seems, the victims aren’t being allowed to pick up the pieces. the government won’t let them.<\/p>\n