“There is a streak of conservatism much bolder now in the Valley than it’s ever used to be,” says Gilman Louie, an early investor in Palantir when he ran the CIA-funded venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, who is now managing partner of America’s Frontier Fund, which has ...
California wildfires have gotten much worse over the last two decades,researchers say. But certain conditions came together in what one expert described as an "environmental recipe" that fueled thedevastating Mountain Firein Ventura County. And researchers say it's part of a troubling trend...
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as well as keeping them away from from the roofline and chimney. It is also important to create a separation between vegetation and flammable items such as patio furniture and swing sets. Fire travels much faster over hills than flat areas, so distances need to be adjusted depending on th...
Make insurers factor fire mitigation efforts into rates.Right now, companies are not obligated to do that, Jones noted, despite any personal measures or government programs thatincrease the likelihood homes will survive a blaze. “That’s hugely ...
devastations can only be mitigated by a controlled burning of the hundreds of years of buildup of what is essentially prime fuel to control the behaviors of future wildfires. In other words, burn small fires so you don't have gigantic ones much like indigenous people in the region did for...
Had this fire been left to burn, the whole chair (and the rest of the room) would have been completely destroyed. On the right, a chair made from fire-retardant fabric burns much slower. Often the fire goes out before too much damage is done....
Ahearn had done much of the technical work on the basemap at his lab, the Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI), and had the definitive and only accessible copy on computer disks in his office. Leidner, Ahearn, and a few others worked until midnight that same day ...
Footwear company APL is donating shoes to the fire victims. “To the courageous first responders and firefighters working tirelessly to protect and serve, we are endlessly grateful. In moments like these, the resilience and generosity of our community coming together reminds us of the strength we...
In terms of effective risk protection, such an altruistic (micro-cosmic) alternative would be clearly inferior compared to the much more effective help via the modern (macro-cosmic) systems morality of institutionalized solidarity, based on insurance markets and professional firefighters. Supplementing ...