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Community Assisting Recovery, Inc.

“Survivors Helping Survivors” • 888-216-8264 • carehelp.org

 

Index:

Upcoming Meeting Schedule: See Below

Insurance/Recovery Tip: ...Personal Property Pricing

CARe Update: ...................This Month’s Meeting Schedule

Sempra/SCE Update:.........San Diego Approves SDG&E's Wildfire Power Shutoff Plan

Disaster Recovery: ............More Angora revegetation vouchers with Barkley donation 

Insurance Industry: ...........Fair Plan Hearings planned by the Department of Insurance

Disaster Prepared: ............[San Diego] County's Wildfire Preparedness Campaign Goes Door to Door

Disaster News: ……............Students once blamed for fire enter trespass pleas

Quote of the week: .......….by Agatha Christie

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Upcoming Meeting Schedule:

Date

Time

Topic

Location

Individual assistance appointments this month. Please call for an appointment. 818-216-0123

 

Insurance/Recovery Tip:

Personal Property Pricing

Are you burnt out on pricing personal property items? Try teaming up with a neighbor and sharing your research! Sometimes people share the results of their memory and item pricing through neighborhood organizations or with CARe. Ask us and see if we have current pricing from your area!

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CARe Update:

This Month’s Meeting Schedule
Due to the individual circumstances survivors are currently facing as they finalize their recovery, we will not provide group meetings for the month of August. If you require assistance, please call us for an appointment, 818-216-0123. Thank you.

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Sempra/SCE Update:

San Diego Approves SDG&E's Wildfire Power Shutoff Plan

SAN DIEGO - The City Council approved a resolution Monday supporting San Diego Gas & Electric's controversial plan to shut off power to parts of the county during periods of high winds to prevent wildfires.

http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story/San-Diego-Approves-SDG-Es-Wildfire-Power-Shutoff/ZyJquMZjpUG2cL3mPVc5kQ.cspx

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Disaster Recovery News:                   

More Angora revegetation vouchers with Barkley donation

July 15, 2009

Charles Barkley donated another $90,000 to Angora fire survivors, and the Community Disaster Resource Center Board voted to use it for another round of revegetation vouchers.

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/2009907159998

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Insurance Industry News:                  

Fair Plan Hearings planned by the Department of Insurance

Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced today that the Department of Insurance will hold hearings for Santa Barbara and Los Angeles residents to discuss any concerns they have with the availability of private homeowners insurance and the Fair Plan.

The hearing for Sayre and Freeway Complex Fire survivors will be held on August 19 at 1pm in Los Angeles. The hearing for Tea Fire survivors will be held on August 25 at 7pm in Santa Barbara.

[For locations and other details, visit:]

http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/0080-2009/release083-09.cfm

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Disaster Prepared:

[San Diego] County's Wildfire Preparedness Campaign Goes Door to Door

With fire season in full swing, an unprecedented door-to-door wildfire preparedness campaign kicked off this summer.

http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10790698

Click on the following links to view the videos...

B4TT Video Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj7EHvsrRzs

B4TT Video Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XhGOvxuB3o

B4TT Video Part 3...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzgfVblgK4s

KUSI Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmJxSHmv2M

KUSI Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmzlEXLJg-8

KUSI Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPV7xvrmtA

10NEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOmBFwjik2s

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Disaster News:                         

Students once blamed for fire enter trespass pleas
05/29/2009

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Eight college students originally blamed for starting a wildfire that destroyed 210 homes in Santa Barbara last year have pleaded no contest to trespassing and building a campfire.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12477417

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Quote of the Week:                   

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. 

     -Agatha Christie

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