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California needs to rethink urban fire risk, starting with where it builds houses

  • Written by Max Moritz, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Wildland Fire, University of California, Santa Barbara
imageThis fire season has been particularly damaging to urban areas.AP Photo/Reed Saxon

Wildfires raging across southern California are causing evacuations of many communities and have destroyed hundreds of structures this month.

These fires follow the wind-driven Tubbs fire earlier this fall that blasted through densely urbanized neighborhoods in...

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