Assessor's office delays address list

Running Springs residents will have to wait until 8 a.m. tomorrow morning for the San Bernardino County office of the Assessor to release specific addresses of properties that were destroyed or damaged in the Slide Fire.
The office will release the information inside the Dome building at the National Orange Show Events Center.
Bill Postmus, county assessor, repeatedly promised on Sunday while walking around the Dome building that a list would be released by 5 p.m.
However, around mid-afternoon, county employees staffing booths inside the building said they were told the list wouldn't be complete by 5 p.m., and that Postmus had left.
Postmus couldn't be reached by cell phone from mid-afternoon to early evening.
Assistant Assessor Adam Aleman said the mountain region's terrain has made it difficult to assess people's properties.
"With the terrain and topography, a lot of these homes fell down in a (different) parcel than they were originally in," he said. "It's difficult to assess the damage."
Some areas still pose a fire danger to assessors and appraisers, Aleman said.

Most addresses of damaged or destroyed properties in Lake Arrowhead and Green Valley Lake can be found at: www.sbcounty.gov/assessor/

-Matt Wrye