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Trump's freeze stalls federal firefighter hiring
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Congress must continue to fund these critical strategies to fight and prevent wildfires | Opinion
Witnessing the devastation of the LA wildfires strengthened our resolve to protect our state through robust prevention and ...
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Column: Slow the spread of fire? ‘We have to get rid of the palm trees’
Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading flames, but fire-resistant landscaping helps. It ...
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The Los Angeles County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...
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How do we keep a wildland fire from becoming an urban conflagration?
I'm Bobbie Scopa a retired firefighter and fire chief. In my career I've worked for urban fire departments as well as federal wildland fire ... and homes lost in San Diego in 2003 and the lives ...
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The LA County fires devastated homes in the wildland-urban interface. Here’s what that is
Judson Boomhower, assistant professor in the economics department of UC San Diego, on the wildland ... fire in California history, the Camp Fire, destroyed the town of Paradise in Butte County ...