On January 21, 2025, in the sunlight of Eaton Fire, the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California.
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A few weeks ago, Damon Raskin’s residence The wildfire in Los Angeles is hit by Pacific Palisid Neighbors were burned on the ground. However, even if he, his wife and two teenage children were still shocked, and even before they could see the burnt remains, the family made a decision: “We want to rebuild our house,” Las Gold saying.
The situation of a family side by side-sudden sadness and firm determination mixing-reflect thousands of thousands of Angeleneos, after the disaster fire, these catastrophic disaster nature It endangers Pacific Palisade, Altadena and neighboring communities, and will also face it. The latest group of rupture fire In northern Los Angeles.
It also talks about the difficult task of the housing building industry in California and the state and local institutions. These tasks will jointly participate in the large -scale reconstruction of more than 12,000 structures that have been destroyed and damaged. This is a cost of existing costs. It is estimated to be $ 40 billionEssence
Tom Grable, chairman of the Los Angeles Branch of Olanzhi County, said: “Rebuilding the house itself is actually a part of it.” “It implies huge jobs, that is, to eliminate tens of thousands of acres of scattered dangerous fragments. He said: “This must be done with a comprehensive programmatic method.”
In order to accelerate the cleanup and reconstruction process of a large number of regulatory TAPE festivals, Gao Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, and Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, both issued an execution order. Newsom’s operations have suspended the permission and review requirements of the California Environmental Quality Law and the California Coast Law. The bass order will also speed up the license and simplify the fragments.
Grable is a member of the board of directors of the California Construction Industry Association. This is a trading group representing the housing architect, contractor, architect, designer, engineer and material supplier. Dan Dunmoyer, chairman and CEO of the association, said that CBIA “literally concept of hosted.” In this case, he said, “This means you have to pick up a burned property and then carry out the entire construction process.”
Dr. Damon Raskin was taken by a photo taken by him and his family to return to investigate the loss of wild fire. Now, it is waiting to remove toxic waste and debris, which is the first step in the long -term reconstruction process. He said, “So confused.”
Damon Raskin
Laskin has just begun to involve many aspects of construction vendors, supervisory officials and insurance providers. He said: “I have talked to a friend of an architect, and he gave me the name of an architect.” “Therefore, we have established these initial contact because we know that so many people will attract architects and architects. “
The heights on the list of Raskin’s going to do it are also studying the fire -resistant wood, wall boards, insulation, windows, roofs and other materials. He needs to protect his new home from the fire in the future. When the house he is now built in 1998, this infrastructure is not needed. The state has established the wilderness-urban interface code, which authorizes the firepower elastic building in high-risk fire areas.
The role of housing builders in housing supply
It is often said that disasters are opportunities to improve the system. Real in the house construction industry in Southern California is encountered. Although wildfires are still burning, they are sensitive.
Large -scale production company, such as Sort,,,,, KB home,,,,, Lenar and Toll brother Specializing in the construction of a multi -household development complex, so they will not participate in a large number of single houses built on Los Angeles land land and land. Instead, they may attract the displaced residents. They choose to withdraw from the city’s high -priced housing market to support the more affordable planning community nearby.
“This is not like we try to use the advantages of these people, but we have a house for you to use. We have received a call from the agent. Please visit us in the houses in St. Clarya and Valencia, but we can From the distance to Los Angeles, we plan to have more houses online in the future. “
KB Home, headquartered in Los Angeles, refused to comment. However, after the revenue report in the fourth quarter on January 13, at the conference call with analysts, CEO Jeffrey Mezger was asked how wildfires affect KB’s business.
Mezger said that when the fire continues to burn, it is too early. “This will be an extremely complicated situation, which will take some time.” Therefore, we don’t want to be six months from now on. All these houses will be restored immediately.
This makes small local and regional housing builders and contractors, in order to compete during the long -term reconstruction work. Deng Moya said that they may be a “company specializing in high -end custom houses” built in Pacific Palisades decades ago. “They have architectural design and professional knowledge.”
And the current wildfire is expected to be The most expensive in American historyUnfortunately, Jinzhou is very familiar with the reconstruction of rebuilding communities. Fire material.
However, increased demand may emphasize material manufacturers (including Certainteed, GAF, Owens Corning, Andersen Windows and Masonite), and its consignor, distributors and retailers. However, the specialty of wood President Donald Trump’s threats in Canada increase increaseThe main source may be the burden on the supply chain store and increase the price, which will be absorbed by the homeowner.
Dunmoyer said: “This may have a greater impact on the cost of reconstruction in California, not a market developments with rising or enhanced prices (materials).”
Strive for insurance claims and limited money
Even before the new house starts, most homeowners need to claim insurance claims for the destroyed houses and content. This is the very difficult process of California. Many insurance companies cover the losses of the previous wildfires, earthquakes, floods, and other natural disasters. Escape from the state or stop making a new policyEssence
This brings some homeowners to California Fair plans. The plan was created by the state legislators in 1968. It is the so -called last insurance company in resort. As of early January, the “fair plan is only $ 377 million to pay claims and has a reinsurance of $ 5.75 billion,” a statement from California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla. Whether a commercial insurance company will cover billions of dollars of other price labels is definitely a dangerous issue.
Raskin has formulated a fair plan policy, which pays up to $ 3 million in residential policy holders. He said: “This may help the reconstruction of reconstruction, but there is no place to cover anywhere near the content of the house.” He said that he hired a public insurance regulator Losses, and hope to avoid huge payment.
At the same time, Raskin and his family rented a house in Santa Monica, because who knows how long. He said: “Our new home will be built in less than three years.” Loskins will not be alone during the long -term recovery of Los Angeles.
