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Want to Protect Your House in the Fiery West? "Think Like an Ember"
The fight to slow global warming will take decades; here are actions to cut fire risk day by day. Embers are fire's emissary. Block them for starters.
 • Andy Revkin
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New Paths to Wildfire Risk Reduction on a Heating, Combustible Planet
Meet top wildfire risk reduction folks who can help you start on the path to safer living in areas facing big perils.
 • Andy Revkin
A "Particularly Dangerous" Fire Preparedness Test for Colorado
Communities along the eastern slopes of the Front Range of the the Rocky Mountains are hopefully heeding urgent “red flag” fire weather warnings today.
 • Andy Revkin
Authorities Charge 29-Year-Old Man with Starting What Became the Catastrophic Palisades Fire
Last January, the catastrophe now known as the Palisades Fire started in brush along a hiking trail before leaping into a dense prosperous neighborhood…
 • Andy Revkin
Lessons for L.A. from San Francisco's 1906 Quake and Inferno, and from Outliers
Via my old friend and fellow longtime journalist Donald G McNeil, Jr., I came to ponder what lessons from San Francisco’s 1906 double-barreled…
 • Andy Revkin
A Wildfire Risk Watchword - "Grandfathered"
I’ll be posting more here soon on the Los Angeles-area firestorms extreme wind-driven fires [updated; see correction] and the implications of this…
 • Andy Revkin
"Wild" Fire is Inevitable; Urban Home Ignitions Are Not
Once again, American communities (like others from Australia to Greece and Portugal) are facing calamitous impacts from wildfires that started in brush…
 • Andy Revkin
Lessons for Everyone from Hawaii's Lahaina Fire Tragedy
From Boulder County, Colorado, to Lahaina, Hawaii, to West Kelowna, B.C. a tragically familiar tale of unheeded wildfire warnings. Here's a conversation…
 • Andy Revkin
Putting the Awful Eastern U.S. Wildfire Smoke in Perspective
The media capital of the world is freaking out over air pollution levels that are low compared to those in millions of developing-country homes
 • Andy Revkin
When Wildfire Comes to Town – Amid the Marshall Fire’s Urban Ashes, Hints of a Less Combustible Future
An interview with a homeowner whose block survived while others burned reinforces longstanding advice from experts on living in fire-prone landscapes.
 • Andy Revkin
Building Forward Safer Where Communities Grow Into Wildfire Danger Zones
Boulder County, Colorado, is just the latest of a growing string of communities devastated when fires that might have started "wild" explode into urban…
 • Andy Revkin
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