The bitter lesson of the Californian fires
- Written by David Bowman, Professor, Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
A firefighter in California. Firefighting is getting more and more expensive as fires get more destructive. PETER DASILVA
California is burning, again. Dozens of peoples have been killed and thousands of buildings destroyed in several fires, the most destructive in the state’s history.
The California fires are just the most recent in a...

