When a wildland fire burns, it consumes grass, brush and trees. Often times, those fuels are adapted to fire and quickly grow back. That’s what’s happening in the LA area. But when a wildland ...
As we watch the fires burn our neighbors’ homes in southern California, we have to keep in mind that the fires are not burning because of an inadequate water supply or a particular fire chief or ...
Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban interface.