Study Shows California Rain Starting Later, Extending Fire Season
A brush fire spreads through a canyon in a residential neighborhood in Carlsbad in January. Courtesy OnScene.TV California’s rainy season now starts a month later than it did decades ago, prolonging the state’s destructive wildfire season, the American...
Billion-dollar natural disasters hit the U.S. a record 22 times in 2020
It’s time to make U.S. disaster policy more effective and equitable. [Photo: David McNew/Getty Images] The year 2020 broke disaster records across the country in destructive and expensive ways. The Atlantic had so many hurricanes, meteorologists ran out of...
Wildfire mitigation is important, but not a one-size-fits-all solution
BY ROY WRIGHT SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE A wildfire in Orange County’s Silverado Canyon, the Bond Fire, grows to 2,000 acres early on December 3, 2020 prompting a number of mandatory evacuation orders from the local fire authority. The blaze began with a house...
After Camp Fire, Paradise, CA, Works on Long-term Recovery
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA — NOV. 15, 2018 — An aerial view of Paradise off of Clark Road on Nov. 15, 2018. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Paradise, Calif., was almost completely destroyed by the Camp Fire in November 2018, but...
When First Responders Become Civilians
An aerial view of the damage caused by the Tubbs Fire in the Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa, CA, in October 2017.Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS. In early October 2017, I was enjoying an annual trip with a group of...
Here in Colorado, we experience days and weeks of smoke in the air. How does it affect us all, even when we are safe from the actual fires miles aways…
The Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Health November 5, 2020/0 Comments/in Education, Wildfire impact /by Shannon Bourke With an unprecedented fire season, more people have seen or experienced the detrimental effects of wildfires. Smoke damage is...
