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The Terrifying Choices Created by Wildfires
Many Californians are confronting a series of confounding decision – among them, whether they should fight or flee.
The New Yorker,
2022
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New Yorker writer Ingfei Chen offers a steady look at the threat of wildfires in California, explaining why and how people living in the state’s “wildland-urban interface” can’t rely on the government for warnings and salvation, but must face the decision to flee or fight back largely on their own. People can take some measures to fireproof their homes, but hardening individual dwellings isn’t enough protection unless an entire community cooperates to be “firewise.” Local authorities need to step up. Anyone vulnerable to natural disasters should take note of this powerful report.
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Ingfei Chen is a freelance science writer and editor for The New Yorker and other publications.
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