{"id":295051,"date":"2010-02-08T13:26:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877785a45970c"},"modified":"2010-02-08T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:26:48","slug":"is-the-federal-government-responsible-for-mudslides-local-officials-want-feds-to-pay-do-you-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295051","title":{"rendered":"Is the federal government responsible for mudslides? Local officials want feds to pay. Do you agree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"La Canada Flintridge digs out\" border=\"0\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2010-02\/52090460.jpg\" width=\"580\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: #8b0412\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-body clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/talk-back\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7ff41ff970b-pi\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7ff41ff970b-500pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 4px\" title=\"Talk back L.A.\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Who should pay for the damage in the La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge mudslide?<\/p>\n<p>Forty-three homes in the communities were damaged, and nine were red-tagged, preventing residents from entering until the structures can be stabilized.<\/p>\n<p>Mudflows also damaged at least 25 vehicles. The force of debris streaming down the mountain pushed a 10-ton boulder into the drain of a critical catch basin in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge, stopping it up and propelling mud and debris two miles downhill to Foothill Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p>La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge Mayor Laura Olhasso said the mud flowed from burned federal lands and therefore the U.S. government should take full responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree? Share your thoughts below.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Nanette Gregorian, 13, wades through muddy water Sunday in her yard in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge, where residents face a massive cleanup job. Credit: <span class=\"credit\"><span class=\"photographer\">Michael Robinson Chavez \/ Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who should pay for the damage in the La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge mudslide? Forty-three homes in the communities were damaged, and nine were red-tagged, preventing residents from entering until the structures can be stabilized. Mudflows also damaged at least 25 vehicles. The force of debris streaming down the mountain pushed a 10-ton boulder into the drain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}