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“Sadly, in California, we have experienced entire communities destroyed by wildfires, and that’s not just the loss of somebody’s property,” Berlant said. “The emotional toll of a fire is ...
Wildfires burn millions of acres of land across the United States every year, but the communities around a fire may feel the impacts long after it has been extinguished. Wildfires of every size ...
The Los Angeles wildfires just keep spreading, fueled by the Santa Ana winds, and wreaking havoc in their wake. Already at least five people have died, and tens of thousands have had to evacuate ...
The Firewise Communities Program focuses on reducing the loss of life and property, in terms of wildfires, by providing resources to allow communities to build responsibly in natural surroundings and assist one another in preparing for as well as recovering from wildfire. Communities enrolled in the Firewise Communities Program are bound to ...
While these options cannot completely replace fire suppression as a fire management tool, other options can play an important role in overall fire management and can therefore affect the costs of fire suppression. [10] Short-term fire suppression can, in the long term, result in larger, more intense wildfire events.
The notion of fire as a tool had somewhat evolved by the late 1970s as the National Park Service authorized and administered controlled burns. [67] Following prescribed fire reintroduction, the Yellowstone fires of 1988 occurred, which significantly politicized fire management. The ensuing media coverage was a spectacle that was vulnerable to ...
As a forest ecologist who has been studying the links between wildfires and climate change since the early 1990s, Susan Prichard is well aware that global warming is contributing to longer and ...
The peak of the wildfire season usually occurs between July and November when hot, dry winds are most frequent. The wildfire season typically does not end until the first significant rainstorm of autumn arrives, which is usually around October in Northern California, and early November in Southern California. [citation needed]