Lessons to be learned from L.A.-area wildfires

Re “Fire Is Still Out of Control; Most Homes Spared So Far,” Sept. 30

In the last three hours, I have watched the sun disappear in a wall of brown smoke as flames leapfrogged down the inside rocky face of the Chatsworth Reservoir. Firetrucks arriving had to navigate a sea of cellphone morons with digital cameras in their SUVs parked haphazardly on both sides just to get a “cool picture.” I even counted five vans with families making an “outing” of it, intent on having fries with their burgers as they clogged the street for a better view of the flames.

Did they all eat stupid flakes for breakfast? What if we were ordered to evacuate? Try to get a car out of your driveway when a big truck is parked across it blocking the exit? I wish a police officer could have issued tickets.

CRAIG CARR

West Hills

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Tell me again why it is that L.A. doesn’t have its own Super Scooper?

TOM BURTON

Van Nuys

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Indian Ocean earthquakes and tsunamis, hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and Southern California wildfires. Is Mother Nature telling us something -- that there are too darn many of us, and don’t settle in disaster-prone areas?

KENYON B. DE GREENE

Woodland Hills