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New mindset needed to handle wildfire hazard
2014-11-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Towns, rural settlements and even whole societies will become increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic losses unless people learn to live with wildfire, rather than try to fight it. But Max Moritz, of the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, and research colleagues from the US and Australia report in Nature journal that they also found evidence from three continents suggesting that government policies can make things worse. Fire-fighting strategies and land-use...
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PG&E, CAL FIRE and California Fire Safe Council Join Forces to Reduce Wildfire Risk
2014-10-14 03:48:00| Transmission & Distribution World
As thousands of firefighters battle extreme fire conditions fueled by near-record drought across California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) responded last month announcing $5.5 million to local Fire Safe Councils. read more
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Wildfire burns five homes near Sacramento, threatens 1,000 more
2014-10-09 21:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A major wildfire burning northeast of Sacramento has charred more than 420 acres (170 hectares) and destroyed five homes, California fire officials said on Thursday. The blaze, which started as five separate fires along Interstate 80 near the community of Applegate on Wednesday, prompted evacuations and the closure of all but one lane of I-80 eastbound, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said on its website. The fire threatened about 1,000 homes and was 20...
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Hot, dry weather in California stokes wildfire fears
2014-10-04 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The fall season has brought a wave of hot, dry weather to California, with parts of the state baking this weekend in triple-digit temperatures and officials expressing concern the summer-like heat could spark a massive wildfire. The scorching temperatures came from a high pressure system in the U.S. West and the arrival in Southern California of autumn's first Santa Ana winds, which carry hot air through mountain passes toward the coast, meteorologists said. In Los Angeles, thermometers in parts...
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California firefighters face tough wildfire season
2014-09-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KABC: With the amount of wildfires California has already seen this year, it might come as a bit of a surprise that traditional fire season is just getting underway. Black hillsides and firefighters cleaning up some burned vegetation are the only remaining signs of the Silverado Fire that burned 968 acres in Silverado Canyon in the Cleveland National Forest earlier this month. The blaze was another reminder that fire season never really ended in California. "We're in the third year of a drought, so...
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