The Park Fire north of Chico is chewing huge amounts of land and has exploded to more than 164,000 acres in just over a day. The fast-moving grass and brush fire forced more than 4,000 people to evacuate the foothills of Lassen National Forest to find shelter on flatland. Evacuation warnings now include Paradise, which the Camp Fire all but destroyed in 2018 ... Show More
Oct 14
Could a Public Wildfire Insurance Plan Work in California?
California voters will soon decide who should be the next insurance commissioner. Two Democrats are in the race, former San Francisco supervisor, Jane Kim, and state Senator Ben Allen. Kim is offering the boldest out-of-the-box policy idea, a publicly run nonprofit guaranteed dis ... Show More
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Sep 2022
Wildfire in Paradise | Ignition | 1
In the early morning of November 8, 2018, a faulty electrical line sparked a fire in the woods of Butte County, California. Spurred on by high winds and dry brush from extreme drought, the fire spread faster than anyone had ever seen before. In a little over an hour, it arrived i ... Show More
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Aug 2023
Homes destroyed, people displaced as wildfires scorch B.C., N.W.T.
Unpredictable and unrelenting wildfires have destroyed blocks of homes, stores and buildings in West Kelowna and part of the Shuswap region in British Columbia.
The province is currently under a state of emergency. 30,000 people are on evacuation order across B.C. and 36,000 more ... Show More
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