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THE HOME OF Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki has been destroyed in a wildfire in California.
Nicole Perna, a spokeswoman for the 42-year-old actor, says his home on a ranch in the San Luis Obispo area was destroyed by the wildfire on the state’s central coast.
By last night, a 6.5 square kilometre wildfire in the region was 60% contained.
Fire officials have only confirmed that the wildfire has destroyed one building and have no details, but the full damage done by wildfires often can’t be assessed until they have been mostly contained.
About 250 residents were ordered from their homes in the area of Santa Margarita after the blaze erupted on Monday, but yesterday night they were told they could return home.
Galecki plays Dr Leonard Hofstadter on the show, one of the most popular on US TV. He also was a regular on the sitcom Roseanne.
Meanwhile, a wildfire burning today through a dense Arizona forest has forced hundreds of people from their homes, closed a major road and created a huge plume of smoke over the same area devastated by a blaze that killed 19 firefighters four years ago.
The fire near the small city of Prescott, fanned by 56 kph winds, has charred more than 73 square kilometres. More than 500 firefighters were battling the blaze.
Elsewhere across the western US, Utah firefighters braced today for more high winds as they try to slow a stubborn wildfire that has burned 13 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,500 people from a ski resort town.
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What does a former GAA President know about the HSE and plus one of the beauts from AIB .
@Donal Carey: he’s an aspiring FG candidate in next GE
Quangos always get money
Not one medically trained doctor or nurse? Makes sense for the board of a HOSPITAL!!!!
@daveyt: it’s quite typical of hse standard actually, and then they’ll impliment a battery of “changes” without any consultation from the front line staff who will actually have to carry them out…more often than not they are actively obstructive. I worked in a clinic last year, brand new million euro building absolutely not fit for purpose, designed more like an office or community center. Endless problems, still causing endless problems and it’s not even entirely finished yet! At no point in it’s construction were any healthcare workers consulted on what was needed. So remember people, next time you gripe about nurse and consultant pay, staff shortages, inadequate equipment and resources and enormous waiting lists remember this kind of nonsense is where a huge chunk of your taxes are going
Will they be looking for money too
@Toby Fish: did wonder that myself. Finlay has had/has more jobs than Indeed.com. CEO of Barnardos, own PR company, senior member of Labour, columnist with the Examiner, author of several books, ironically a board member of the CRA yet his own charity were paying him above HSE rates at €120K pa and now he has been appointed to this board. Nice work if you have the connections.
@GrumpyAulFella: that’s showbiz baby.
no money for nurses or paramedics but penty for former gaa ,aib , charity ceo’s and former kerry group management — stinks to high heaven of corruption and nepotism . typica ff/fg
What does a board do exactly? Are they an unnecessary vestigal appendage that no longer serves a purpose in the evolutionary organisational entity that is the modern business/institution?
Boards are often composed of people who are brilliant as individuals, but not really useful at board level. Vested commercial or political agendas, meddling micro management of junior management and their subordinates leads to an unstable top heavy leviathan that only a director with an iron will and Machiavellian interpersonal skills can handle.
In a nutshell, are boards becoming the proverbial ‘white elephant’; another tier that convolutes the organisational logic?
If so, what’s the alternative?
@Gallery and Museum Staff in Ireland: You live big words don’t ya
@Kieran Monaghan: Yes. I’m afraid our predilection is that we have a lexiconographic predisposition to all things wordy.
@Gallery and Museum Staff in Ireland: *’vestigial’
Privatisation 101.
@Bobby Moore: there is no policy of privatisation of the health service. In 2019, the HSE will receive more money than ever. Plus, they have signed off €1.7 billion for the Children’s Hospital. Doesn’t sound like privatisation to me.
I’d like to see two ordinary folks on the board. Two civilians so to speak. One with private insurance and one with a medical card.
Who will be appointed to the Board to start Culling Middle Management. HSE is a Pyramid type structure with the middle layers defunct, and trying to justify their existence by traveling to meetings with repetitive Agendas and no results or improvement.
Should Harris be serious about the improvement of the HSE as a whole then he should look at the Staffing and Promotion of unqualified personnel into positions above their skills.
Shite
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