Thursday morning jolt

• Fire safe: As we approach the one year anniversary of the Station Fire, the Insurance Information Network of California, the Calif. Dept. of Insurance, and the LA County Fire Dept. held a demonstration of fire protection measures and fire-safe landscaping over in the Meadows.  The Insurance Institute has this press release of the event.
• Bongs away: The LA County Dept. of Regional Planning is looking at an ordinance amendment to ban medical marijuana dispensaries throughout unincorporated Los Angeles County, including Altadena (darn!  just when we wanted our ad section to look like the LA Weekly's!).  Details are here. The hearing is scheduled for Sept. 22.
• Property values: Some Realtors are getting in a uproar over the Arroyos & Foothill Conservancy's efforts to buy 21 acres of Rubio Canyon -- we ran into several RE sites linking to this Aug. 21 SGVT article about it (of course, we first wrote about it Aug 9.) The sites generally have a headline, "Hikes Trump SFRs (single family residential) in Altadena."  As tho' we don't already have both,
• The Altadena office of the California Highway Patrol will be doing a sobriety/driver license checkpoint on Friday, somewhere in the unincorporated area of east Pasadena, from 6 PM-2 AM, says CHP public information officer Ming-Yang Hsu.