12/28/2023 0 Comments Sable ranch![]() ![]() Steve Arklin points out what he calls the “miracle of Rancho Deluxe:” a tee-pee that somehow survived when the Sand Fire swept through the movie ranch in Placerita Canyon. Sable has added additional pumping capacity. “We have productions on the property now and business is looking pretty good,” Hunt said.īoth movie ranches continue to update firefighting equipment and keep workers up to date on where it’s kept and how to use it. These stats offer a partial picture, as not all filming requires permits.īusiness is picking up at Sable as well, which pulled 19 permits for 36 filming days in the first half of this year, compared to 21 permits for 51 filming days in the same stretch of 2016. In the first half of 2017, Rancho Deluxe was issued seven filming permits by the city of Santa Clarita, representing 16 filming days, compared with 13 permits for 18 filming days in the same period a year earlier. “This year, we’re back on track, with productions coming in business is great.” Nature’s one-two punch definitely led to a slowdown in business, Arklin said. “This was the greenest spring with the heaviest cover of wildflowers I’ve ever seen.” But the rain helped bring the grass back, he said. “It hit ground that didn’t have any brush on it to hold the water back, so it was a pretty devastating stretch,” Arklin said. Six months after the fire, the heaviest rains in a decade arrived. “Once those jobs go away, it’s difficult to get them back.” Unless they can afford to build new sets, shows that need a Western town like the one Sable had must go elsewhere, and that’s going to have an economic impact here. “We have productions going on again, but there’s some business we haven’t gotten back,” Hunt said. Sable Ranch “lost a lot of history, including sets and our town.” Those structures have yet to be rebuilt. It was destroyed by the Sand Fire, which also burned the hills in the background. The remains of a water tower structure at Sable Ranch. He’s grateful to outside crews that came in to fight the fire, but said that without local knowledge, they must wait for orders from a command center. “Our local firefighters know the community and what kind of firefighting equipment we have, but they weren’t allowed to act on that knowledge,” he said. He’s not convinced that this was the wisest course at Sable Ranch, because of the range of firefighting equipment available on the property. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron Bender. ![]()
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