Storms, floods, and fires are ever more extreme.

And yet, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is fighting for its life.

I've never been a big fan of FEMA.

FEMA's a disaster.

FEMA's a dirty way.

People are waking up in droves to the FEMA camps.

Can the agency survive the stories that have been told about it?

And can we survive without FEMA?

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Fighting Fire with Money.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshire in New York. Each year, the federal government spends

about $3 billion fighting wildfires. And this season is off to a rough start. In March, Nebraska

had its largest wildfire in state history. Right now, a fire outside of L.A. has forced

evacuations. Experts say fire season is getting longer, and that costs money.

Marketplaces Caitlin Tan looked into it.

Caitlin Trudeau's family has lived in Southern California a long time.

My grandfather's house actually burned down in one of the fires in January.

Luckily, he was totally fine.

That was almost a year and a half ago,

but fires are still on Trudeau's mind. Like, you didn't have this when I was growing up. Like,

it wasn't a thing that happened all the time. Trudeau works for Climate Central, which tracks

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