'Avatar' director James Cameron plans to stay and fight next Malibu brush fire
James Cameron has made it clear he's ready to fight the next brush fire in Malibu.
The "Avatar" director told the New Yorker that he's taken elaborate precautions -- including building his own pump house -- at his Malibu compound and will stay and fight when the next brush fire hits.
“We have a big fire problem here,” he said. “We take the pool water, mix it with Class A foam, and pump it out over the whole property. Everybody else just runs for the hills.”
There has been much debate about whether homeowners should evacuate or stay and fight during brush fires. "We sit and wait. Put on our yellow coats and our breathing gear and wait. And, you know what? It’s impressive," Cameron told the magazine. "When these hills light up with a hundred-foot-tall wall of flames coming over the top of the hill there, you feel like it’s Armageddon.”
The reporter noticed a "red Humvee platform fire truck" in the driveway.
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Mr. Cameron will you sign a waver stating that if you get over run by fire or are injured or if you run out of class A foam or pool water that the LACOFD will not be obligate to risk life and limb to bail you out, rescue you, or provide you with emergency medical care?
Leave the fire fighting to the professionals, spray the house down with foam, ok. Board of the windows, ok,
But please evacuate when told to. No reason to risk others lives to play fireman.
Posted by: John Davis | October 26, 2009 at 03:09 PM
Mr. Cameron, you sir are a fool. If you are told to evacuate then do so. Insurance protects your property. You are simply risking your life and the lives of those duty bound to rescue you. Why don't you use your high profile to set a positive example and help emergency services get the message out to people that they need to heed evacuation warnings. Idiot.
Posted by: Finn Green | October 27, 2009 at 08:08 AM
Hopefully Cameron will end up burning in hell fighting the fire.
Those who have had to work with him can relate to this statement.
Burn baby burn.
James Worthington
Pasadena
Posted by: James Worthington | October 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM