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What has changed is the fuel load. We started putting lots and lots of fuel (homes, cars, etc.) on those hills that have been burning forever.
My brush is actually very narrow because it demands personal responsibility from every individual to not build there or to manage their own wildfire risk.
My brush is actually very narrow because it demands personal responsibility from every individual to not build there or to manage their own wildfire risk.
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
What has changed is the fuel load. We started putting lots and lots of fuel (homes, cars, etc.) on those hills that have been burning forever.
My brush is actually very narrow because it demands personal responsibility from every individual to not build there or to manage their own wildfire risk.
My brush is actually very narrow because it demands personal responsibility from every individual to not build there or to manage their own wildfire risk.
The fires have always been there. The area has been high risk for thousands of years.
In 1542 Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo named San Pedro Bay, located in what is now Los Angeles County, "Baya de los Fumos" (Bay of the Smoke) during his expedition along the California coast.
In 1542 Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo named San Pedro Bay, located in what is now Los Angeles County, "Baya de los Fumos" (Bay of the Smoke) during his expedition along the California coast.
May 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The fires have always been there. The area has been high risk for thousands of years.
In 1542 Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo named San Pedro Bay, located in what is now Los Angeles County, "Baya de los Fumos" (Bay of the Smoke) during his expedition along the California coast.
In 1542 Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo named San Pedro Bay, located in what is now Los Angeles County, "Baya de los Fumos" (Bay of the Smoke) during his expedition along the California coast.
Sure, but we all knew this buying in the WUI. There is no new information today that we didn't have 40 years ago. We knew it would get hotter and dryer and that homes made out of sticks and paper on hillsides would burn.
May 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Sure, but we all knew this buying in the WUI. There is no new information today that we didn't have 40 years ago. We knew it would get hotter and dryer and that homes made out of sticks and paper on hillsides would burn.
Keeping your house isn't motivation enough? Maybe it's a matter of messaging?
May 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Keeping your house isn't motivation enough? Maybe it's a matter of messaging?
This isn't really about insurance. It's about living in a toxic fuel load in an area that's burned for thousands of years and dealing with the reality of that choice. Insurance companies are not required to cover homes that will burn because of how they're Bilt and where they're located.
May 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This isn't really about insurance. It's about living in a toxic fuel load in an area that's burned for thousands of years and dealing with the reality of that choice. Insurance companies are not required to cover homes that will burn because of how they're Bilt and where they're located.
The last episode of BLM's Wildfire Matters actually digs into this very theme - why ecologists and land managers need fire experience.
May 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The last episode of BLM's Wildfire Matters actually digs into this very theme - why ecologists and land managers need fire experience.
Hi Michael! Are you aware of any position papers that explain the safety of single-stair buildings to rank-and-file fire department leadership? I know of your 2021 point access block article and the recent Pew report, but maybe there's something clear and suscinct that we can share with fire depts?
May 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hi Michael! Are you aware of any position papers that explain the safety of single-stair buildings to rank-and-file fire department leadership? I know of your 2021 point access block article and the recent Pew report, but maybe there's something clear and suscinct that we can share with fire depts?
You wrote out the solution yourself.
Now let's get to work.
Now let's get to work.
March 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
You wrote out the solution yourself.
Now let's get to work.
Now let's get to work.
Ahhh... American car-brain disease. Condo and apartment dwellers do not equal drivers. We're also not talking about climate, we're speaking about ingition and the spread of fire, which condo buildings limit to a great degree.
Fire season is year round but climate change is progressing.
Fire season is year round but climate change is progressing.
March 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ahhh... American car-brain disease. Condo and apartment dwellers do not equal drivers. We're also not talking about climate, we're speaking about ingition and the spread of fire, which condo buildings limit to a great degree.
Fire season is year round but climate change is progressing.
Fire season is year round but climate change is progressing.
Abstracting from the density question, the survivability of 7-story condo buildings in the WUI is many times greater than single-family homes. They're build to a different code and far greater wildfire prevention specs.
March 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Abstracting from the density question, the survivability of 7-story condo buildings in the WUI is many times greater than single-family homes. They're build to a different code and far greater wildfire prevention specs.