The LA County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is
Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.
The New Yorker3d
Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno
The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...
'This has been really devastating': Inside the lives of incarcerated firefighters battling the L.A. wildfires
Incarcerated firefighters currently battling the Eaton Fire and are stationed at a base camp at the Rose Bowl.
Pierce County firefighters are working 24-hour shifts in LA. Here’s what they’re seeing
To get to our assigned area, we drive through the Palisades area every day, and I mean the damage is really unbelievable,” ...
Palisades Fire firefighters taking part in first-of-its-kind cancer study
The study comes after the International Agency for Research on Cancer officially classified firefighting as a carcinogenic ...
The Desert Sun14d
How do we keep a wildland fire from becoming an urban conflagration?
The actual wildland firefighting is being done behind the scenes where no one can see. And it’s being done by the U.S. Forest Service, Cal Fire and city and county wildland fire crews and engines.
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Why California keeps building homes where wildfires burn
Between 1990 and 2020, nearly 45% of the homes built in California have broken ground in what researchers and firefighters call the wildland-urban interface: the hillsides, ravines and canyons ...