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To the editor : The reason the fire zone regulations are mired in delay is that they are a simplistic attempt to solve a seriously complex problem ( “How Zone Zero, designed to protect California homes from wildfire, became plagued with controversy and delays,” Nov. 3). Take, for instance, the probation against storing firewood inside the 30-foot-wide Zone One. While my neighbor might not like the description, from my point of view, their house is a pile of firewood and building codes will generally place it within 10 to 12 feet from mine.

In both the Eaton and Palisades fires, radiant heat from one burning home would ignite its neighbor and so on down the line until the en

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