The government's red tape may take up to 18 months to clean up ash and debris from the burnt archeological site of a house burned by Los Angeles.
The federal program will be paid to the contractor to bring a tile RUB to residents, but they must work through bureaucracy, such as the Los Angeles government, the Federal Army Engineers, and the Environmental Protection Agency. yeah. I did it.
In other words, even if it is ultimately trapped through a wildfire, the ruined Los Angeles owner can pay from the pocket to remove the cost.
Meanwhile, the authority of the license and the scammer's landlord warned that they are coming out of woodworking to prey on the victims.
Parisase Fires and Eaton Fire wiped out about 12,000 houses, companies, and other buildings before the fire brigade eventually included Inferno.
Residents are forced to wear valuables, souvenirs, and at least one case to wear Hazmato suits to find potentially toxic ash in search of loved family dogs. 。
At the same time, the EPA greatly spreads out abandoned Ins of potentially dangerous materials such as paints, batteries, and pesticides.
However, everyone needs to remove the remaining tile BLE before everyone actually reconstructs the house. That is where things become complicated.
Theoretically, the Army Kingdom, who acts on behalf of the EPA, hire a contractor, execute this service to the residents for free, send an invoice to the insurance company, or step in.
However, choosing this service requires a long bureaucratic process implemented by multiple institutions full of documents and red tape.
First, housing owners need to submit the right of immigration rights to a county that complete the review process before giving access to the Army Engineers, then hire a contractor, and then with the housing owner. We will contact and approve to obtain approval.
The process may take several months if the real estate owner described in the certificate dies, or if the trustee cannot be used to fill out the documents. Talk to the New York Times。
“I don't want to make it sound like the majority,” said Swenson. “These are off the price, but they exist in all fire.”
Nevertheless, the authorities estimate that one can take up for more than a year for five facilities, and that it may take 18 months for all sites to be cleared.
“This is a long time for these government agencies to wait for them,” said the 65 -year -old Kimberly Bloom.
Bloom and her husband's Pacific Parisade's house was completely destroyed, and they rely on private contractors to accomplish work -it costs much more than their insurance cover.
Even worse, they must be careful of fraudulent contractors without licensing that prey on hopeless casualties.
In one general fraud, it claims that an unauthorized contractor has “only in the neighborhood” or “remaining ingredients”, and provides repair work with impossible bargains, but repaired. Please ask for cash or a large amount of downpay. One presentation was warned by the LA business and the Consumer Affairs Bureau.
Other scams exclude the money of the owner of housing before the work is completed, causing expensive materials to inexpensive ones, causing other problems to restore other problems after the start of work. Includes to do.
When they wait for government machines to clear their property, fire evacuees are having a hard time finding a place to stay -the greedy landlord is making like a bandit.
Some landlords have increased their rent more than twice, despite the California law, which prohibits the increase in rent by more than 10 % in an emergency.
So far, two landlords have been charged with price gowns after trying to shake the family of fire evacuees at more than 50 % of their original listed prices. 。
