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News From Here & There(Continued)MALTAA . Darmenia-Gay, Secretary of the MaltaKitefliers Group, writes :In addition to being a member ofAKA, I am also a member of the BritishKite Flyers Association and founderof the Malta Kitefliers Group . To datethe group is small and I find it ratherhard to get adults to admit they enjoykiteflying .On May 15, 1977, the first NationalKiteflying Competition was held inMalta G .C . It was organized by theMalta Kitefliers Group to celebratethe International Kite Festival Day[!sic] . This is the first time any kiteflyingcompetition has been held hereon such a scale . I hope this will markthe revival of kiting here in Malta .NETHERLANDSRento Brattinga sends this account frontAmsterdam :There was something in the air justoutside Amsterdam's new Biljlmermeer(Continued on page 63
KITE SAFETY IN THE HEADLINES:T 11141A SYCAMORE FIREOn July 26, 1977, at 7 :27 or 7 :28 p .m .,a fire broke out in the rugged foothillsof Santa Barbara, CA, which destroyedat least 234 homes, many of them luxurious,and damaged many others . Thetotal estimate of loss ran to a quarterof a billion dollars .Amazingly, no lives were lost . Butthe emotional damage over lost possessions,pets and the memories of alifetime, was beyond calculation . Officiallynamed the Sycamore Fire, it wasthe worst of several fires that besiegedtinder-dry California in this period .For kitefliers it was particularlyagonizing because it was started by akite .Surely every reader of this magazineshared a personal sense of shock andregret on learning that a kite couldhave brought such terrible tragedy toothers . From such stern lessons wehope to learn how to accept and promoteresponsibility in kiting .Kite Lines talked to Bob Krauch ofSouthern California Edison Co ., whosaid that a large box kite flown on 1 /8-inch nylon line pulled two high tensionwires together. They fused and senthot metal to the ground, where the firestarted . The kite and string were notconductive, but caused the two lines tocross in conditions of extreme heat,dryness and wind .Henry H . Howard, AKA Life Memherof Solvang, CA, 35 miles fromSanta Barbara, wrote :"I am happy to tell you that so faras I have been able to determine nobodywants to lynch the kiteflier, whohas been identified as a local man, acarpenter, who had worked on several
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