More than 50 years ago, the US government passed the Clean Air Act of 1970 to address air pollution from industrial sources.Air quality improvedacross much of the country for decades. In recent years, though, events like wildfires haveworsened air quality. Smoke and particulate from fires can ...
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"It Was Built for This": How Design Helped Spare Some Homes From the Los Angeles WildfiresThe GuardianFrom the article: "As fires set LA ablaze, some houses are left standing amid ashes thanks to concrete walls, class A wood - and luck."...
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Disneyland Offering Free Tickets To First Responders Of LA Fires Posted: February 10, 2025 Disneyland is honoring the first responders who fought on the frontlines of the LA wildfires with complimentary theme park tickets. The Heroes Ticket will be available to eligible California firefighters and ...
Most wildfires in recent historic time have been ignited by human activity (Adams, 2013; Balch et al., 2017; Keeley & Syphard, 2018), but climate and weather control wildfire behavior and spread, determining whether ignitions grow into large fires (Abatzoglou et al., 2018). Prevalence of...
Spectra of typical green plant and soil materials from the central California Coast Range: red willow (Salix laevigataleaf, red); valley oak (Quercus lobataleaf, green); blue oak (Q. douglasiileaf, blue); dry annual grass leaf, orange; Franciscan formation complex non-serpentine greenstone soil...
Spectra of typical green plant and soil materials from the central California Coast Range: red willow (Salix laevigataleaf, red); valley oak (Quercus lobataleaf, green); blue oak (Q. douglasiileaf, blue); dry annual grass leaf, orange; Franciscan formation complex non-serpentine greenstone soil...
with direct relevance to fire response: percent of acres burned by natural ignition with resource benefits, percent change from the 10-year average for the number of wildfires controlled during initial attack, and percent of fires that exceed a statistically determined suppression cost threshold [20]...