ConFire has responded to what started as a fire in a homeless encampment and is now a vegetation fire under hwy.242 near Mayette Ave, in Concord.
Use caution if you’re in the area.
UPDATE: The fire has been extinguished.
UPDATE: Vegetation Fire Reported Near Hwy.242 In Concord
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Contra Costa County needs more fire prevention outreach to the ‘unhoused’. Show them how to cook food safely in the camp, extinguish cigs and blunts correctly, prepare an area before cooking some meth. I may submit my name as the director of this program, request pay of 500K a year and get some grant money, say 2-3M a year to run the program. Maybe even get a parcel tax on the ballot for ongoing funding of this new program.
It appears your concept ignores the fact that homeless people aren’t at the least bit
interested in changing. They like being free range, and with that comes the risk of
fires being started due to stupidity. It sounds good, but it’s not likely to do much.
The people you’re trying to help somehow almost always avoid rational thought,
and won’t accept being wards of the state/county.
This group has endangered peaceful law abiding citizens. This group cannot behave with normal freedoms. They must at the very LEAST, be handled as impaired. Special. They cannot roam the countryside unattended.
The bums do drugs and start fires to cook food. Everything a honest citizen would be arrested for. It is high time to take back the community and drive these panhandling urban campers out of town.
I was going to say that if you and I started this fire deliberately we’d be in jail. If we started the fire by accident we’d be saddled with a huge fines from the authorities and the Bay Area their quality management board. But our wonderful homeless get away with dumping garbage polluting burning and vandalizing
There’s a giant cross in Concord? Who knew???
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Homeless encampments should be abated by local and State government due to their hazardous and unsanitary conditions and general threat to public safety and the environment.
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THAT is common sense.
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more homeless people creating aggrivation and draining community resources….there is no approach to help the willing drunk, the willing addict, or the willing homeless….enact/or enforce existing no camping laws, vagrancy, loitering, etc… the amount of taxes citizens pay its obscene that this is a issue
We need a more aggressive approach.
Judge could sentence the offenders to a prison style work farm (or farms) somewhere deep into the Central Valley.
They can either straighten them out or scare them out of California.
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Concur.
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… similar to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison built on a former slave plantation. Inmates are paid twenty cents per hour to pick fruits and vegetables in the fields. This prison was given the nickname, “Angola Prison.”
As a safety precaution to the general public all homeless encampments have been cleared out today . Inhabitants were charged with various offenses such as possession of controlled substances, stolen property, trespassing, being under the influence, arson, littering, and illegal camping.
Oh wait no that would make sense and require police to enforce the law. Nevemind police did nothing and firefighters had to risk their lives because of it.
Another homeless camp fire that we pay hundreds of thousands of $$ to put out every year – when will the “leadership” wise up and stop this nonsense!?
This must be having a dreadful effect on climate change. Perhaps someone should point that out to that giant load on two feet, our Governor.
This group has endangered peaceful law abiding citizens. This group cannot behave with normal freedoms. They must at the very LEAST, be handled as impaired. Special. They cannot roam the countryside unattended.