More than 80 lives have been lost in multiple fires blazing around California. Hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes and hundreds of square miles have been scorched.
Rain is in the forecast, but that could trigger ash and mud flows, which bring their own dangers as rescuers search for more than 800 missing people. What’s needed to address this crisis, and what needs to change to prepare for future wildfires?
Guests:
Nuala Sawyer, news editor for SF Weekly
Glen MacDonald, John Muir Memorial Chair of Geography at UCLA and Director of the White Mountain Research Center
Michael Wara, senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment
Web Resources:
BuzzFeed News: There’s No Looking Away From This Year’s California Fires
NPR: What Policymakers Are Trying To Do About Wildfires As They Become More Destructive
Daily Beast: Climate Scientist Driven From Home by California Wildfire Rips ‘Uninformed’ Trump
SF Weekly: The Biggest Loss in Paradise? Its Elders.