I grew up in the Los Angeles Area in Glendale and fires were pretty common then in the 1950s and 1960s. I remember times in Junior High school and in High School when the richer students were crying whose parents had homes in the hills around Glendale for the nice view there and they were crying because their homes had burned down then.
But, Malibu is one of the most difficult places to survive fires simply because there is only one road to escape which is along the coast on Pacific Coast Highway. So, it almost makes sense to have a Hobie Cat if you live along the beach so you can hopefully sail out of there if the winds aren't too high when this happens. So, often people are forced to run into the ocean to survive and breathe through wet clothes because they don't want to die of smoke inhalation blowing out to sea.
Don't get me wrong: Malibu is a really wonderful place to live if there aren't Santa Ana Winds and 6% humidity on that day. But, when this happens often your only place to escape is into the ocean or onto a surfboard or paddle board and hopefully you can just paddle away from the smoke so you don't wind up in the hospital with smoke inhalation.
My wife once got smoke inhalation in Lake Tahoe which is a problem because it is around 6000 feet because we live normally at sea level and it takes a couple of days to get used to 6000 foot air to breathe. She did too much during a fire even though I told her not to. But, she is a very busy person and wound up having to spend the night under observation at the Truckee Hospital which is the nearest larger hospital to the Lake Tahoe Area.
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