RESIDENTS WANT BRUSH CLEARED MOBILE-HOME DWELLERS WARY OF FIRE.Byline: Kerry Cavanaugh Staff Writer MISSION HILLS - Tinder-dry grass and tall stalks of highly flammable flam·ma·ble adj. Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; inflammable. [From Latin flamm arundo grow within five feet of the wood-shingle mobile homes at the Bermuda Senior Mobile Home Park, and Ed Lipkin's eight-month crusade to have the city chop them down has yielded few results. The weeds line a city-owned flood-control channel that backs up to the senior community, located along Sepulveda Boulevard just north of the Ronald Reagan Freeway. City crews recently cleared a short stretch of the channel, but left about 80 percent of the weeds intact. It's a start but not good enough, said Lipkin, a 76-year-old community activist. ``On a windy day, should the brush in the channel ignite, the roofs of the mobile homes bordering the channel will ignite and then the fires will spread to other homes in the park,'' he said. ``We have quite a number of people that have motor scooters or wheelchairs. They would not be able to get out in time.'' City Councilman Alex Padilla's office said the city is aware of the problem, and asked for patience. The city's Wastewater Management team in the Department of Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. is responsible for clearing the weeds, but those crews have been busy clearing the bottom of the channels, to clear standing water given the concerns over mosquitoes and West Nile virus West Nile virus, microorganism and the infection resulting from it, which typically produces no symptoms or a flulike condition. The virus is a flavivirus and is related to a number of viruses that cause encephalitis. . ``We recognize it's only a fifth completed, and it's going to take a while with the manpower they have,'' said David Gershwin, spokesman for Padilla. ``We're not going to get instantaneous results on projects this big.'' That doesn't make Merle merle a pattern of coat color pigmentation with dark, irregular blotches on a lighter background. Seen in some Collies and Welsh corgis. In shorthaired dogs, e.g. Great Danes and Dachshunds, the similar pattern is called dapple. Fry feel better. The 83-year-old former court translator calls the city every year, pleading with workers to cut down the weeds and castor bean castor bean, bean produced by Ricinus communis, a plant of the spurge family, widely cultivated as an ornamental. Moles die when they eat the roots. It has long been used as an ordeal poison in parts of Africa. trees that keep growing back. Frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: and recovering from a stroke, Fry enlisted Lipkin, who is an activist in the senior mobile-home park. ``I'm very afraid of fire. I try to keep everything really well-watered,'' Fry said. Kerry Cavanaugh, (818) 713-3746 kerry.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Residents Jan and Ed Lipkin are concerned that dry weeds in a city-owned flood control channel Flood control channels are a series of large, concrete, and empty (except when a flood is actually present) open-air channels that extend a ways below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if and when a flood occurs, the flood will run into the channels, and proceed to be pose a threat to the Bermuda Senior Mobile Home Park in Mission Hills. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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