By james art 
It would be safe to say that no one in Pahrump is more familiar with the regions in southern California, where wild fires destroy thousands of homes than longtime local resident Heidi Fly.
The convicted and retired Hollywood Madam provided his thoughts to the Pahrump Valley for what is described by some as the most destructive fire in California’s history.
“I grew up in the Hollywood hills, so I’m very familiar with the fires because they always look in the hills,” she said. “My friend’s home is actually burning to the ground. I was in LA last week, staying with my friends in the Silver Lake, and another girl who stayed there said that the whole house of her family was that they had many years in the Palisadi was burned. “
Call all birds
Shortly after moving from Hollywood to Pahrump about 18 years ago, Flace founded an exotic bird sanctuary at the northern end of the city.
As such, she temporarily offers her property for exotic birds, mainly macaids and parrots owned by LA residents, displaced and affected by the fires.
“A lady in the palisades had 19 birds, but she placed them in a marble bath and left and they all died,” Flies said. “I posted on my Instagram account that all the victims of a fire needing a temporary home for their parrots can contact me. Everything I received were terrible stories about how they loved them so much, but the birds died. “
A similar experience in Pahrump
Flies also talks about his own experience with a fire at his home in Fort Churchill in Pahrump a few years ago.
“In 2012, my house here in Pahrump burned accidentally,” she said. “Somehow ignited. I don’t remember how, but I had insurance. It was scary and I remember thinking that only idiots were catching their houses on fire, but when it happened to me, I was like, I guess I was an idiot. I remember seeing the flames and pulled out all my birds. It was scary as hell, but it was a complete incident. “
Pahrump Fire Gief Comments
The head of Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Services Scott Lewis, who has responded to countless structural fires for several decades, also talks to Pahrump Valley Times about the fires in LA.
“They had the perfect ingredients there during the fires,” he said. “They have put up residences closely, apparently having a problem with the water they looked there. You could have the best apparatus, the best firefighters, all located there, but when you get a light source with 100 miles of winds, pushing all the humidity away, it’s almost useless. These firefighters made the best they could do. “
Interestingly, Lewis also said that such fires have a way of creating their weather conditions during major inferos.
“This is a phenomenon that is well addressed in the Wildland community and they can absolutely influence and create their own weather conditions,” he advised. “This is because all the ingredients were where it stretched from one house to another in close proximity.”
For more information about the Fly’s Flying Sanctuary, call (775) 764-0775 or visit through Instagram.
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