L.A. Fires: Recovery & Rebuilding
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State agencies' lack of familiarity with Native lands has often led to interference with tribal evacuation efforts and unnecessary destruction of culturally sensitive habitat. To address the significant gaps between tribal needs and available assistance, even the smallest tribes do whatever it takes to care for their members and support other tribes.
Wildfire smoke can travel hundreds, even thousands, of miles downwind, exacerbating health conditions and impacting marginalized communities most.
In Sinyaach 'Aaw Kenaach, Iipay Woman's Fire Story, a member of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel explores the meaning of fire in Kumeyaay culture and her own evolving relationship with fire.
Even after a wildfire is fully suppressed, the danger may not be over. Fires increase the likelihood of devastating mudflows after a rain. And unforeseen costs place financial burdens on those looking to rebuild.
Drought, wildfires, extreme heat: California lawmakers cast climate change as the culprit in an emerging series of public health threats, setting aside billions to help communities respond. But they stopped short of more aggressively reducing the state’s share of the greenhouse emissions warming the planet.
Smokey Bear has taken some heat in recent years, but a U.S. Forest Service historian argues that his message is now more relevant than ever.
From Jim Crow to today, L.A.'s Black firefighters have stood against discrimination while risking their lives fighting metropolitan fires.
A podcast from the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West places wildfire in historical context and explores fire from the margins.
In what we now call Southern California, fire was an everyday tool for Indigenous people for thousands of years. With wildfires happening so frequently, it is time to bring back carefully planned, well-timed, appropriately scaled, deliberate, cultural fires not only to honor Indigenous cultural practitioners, but also the land on which many of us have been settling.
California’s wildfires have become more destructive and frequent in recent years, leaving behind a profound impact on wildlife.
The thought of flight and the consuming power of fire has fascinated mankind for centuries. For the CAL FIRE team, fire and flight go hand in hand.
Fire Chasers is a visceral experience, as viewers follow firefighters in the air on CalFire helicopters, on the ground in the wilderness and around the table at fire stations across the state.