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“You get these intense fires and they require more resources, the urgency is higher, the public safety aspect is much higher,” he says. Bidaburu says the increasing intensity and the proximity and danger to communities has driven up costs. Enormous pressure on resourcesĬombined, the fires put enormous stress on the US’ firefighting resources. Half of the region was still experiencing extreme drought.Ī progressive snapshot of maps showing the drought conditions of US in the first week of each month noted. Washington and Arizona had their second hottest summer this year.īy the end of November – even after heavy rains doused the Pacific north-west and northern California – 80% of the west remained categorized in severe drought. “It’s just a lousy situation.”Ģ021 delivered the hottest summers on record in California, Nevada, and Oregon. “You are just racking up year after year of high temperatures and below-average precipitation” said Andrew Hoell, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist who serves as co-lead on the agency’s drought taskforce. Higher heat not only dries landscapes faster, making them prone to burn, it also reduces snow, reducing the water flow into rivers and reservoirs.

The Windy fire and the KNP Complex fire, which tore through California’s Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks, resulted in the deaths of up to 3,637 mature sequoia trees – a species that thrived through fires for centuries.įire risk across the American west was exacerbated by historic conditions: a record-breaking drought and unprecedented heatwaves. Soon after, the 221,775-acre Caldor fire became the second. The Dixie fire, which burned close to a million acres in California over three months, became the first fire to cross over the Sierra Nevada range. “There’s no denying that fires are burning hotter and faster.” “For the first 25 years of my career, fires moved in a certain way and in a certain fashion but now they are acting very uncharacteristically,” said Jon Heggie, CalFire battalion chief. Flames are reaching new heightsįires committed feats never seen before.

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In my free time, I enjoy collecting records, reading Indigenous novels and books, going on walks with my Siberian Husky, and drinking way too much coffee.Horizontal histogram showing the number of acres burned by wildfires across the US since 2015. I am grateful to now be hosted on the unceded ancestral territory of the Ohlone people in Yelamu (San Francisco). Post grad I have decided to return my way back to the public radio and journalism world and I am most excited to cover stories about California Indigenous people, language revitalization, and Indigenous politics.

After transferring to Scripps, I found other academic studies like social justice, political economy, Indigenous history and resistance, and Indigenous language revitalization. I was first introduced to public radio, podcasting, and journalism in my first year of college when I worked for WERS 88.9 FM in Boston, MA. I am a recent graduate of Scripps College where I majored in Sociology and took many classes in Media Studies. I was born and raised in my ancestral territory that is now known as San Bernardino in Southern California. Hamiintamc! I am Maara'yam (Serrano), Kumeyaay, and white.

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