California burning

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Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When Paradise burned down last year, it made the Camp Fire the most destructive and deadly in Californian history. A few months earlier the nearby Ranch Fire was the largest. In southern California, a series of chaparral fires have brought danger to towns along the state’s coast. And the statistics show that large, dangerous fires have been increasing for decades. But the reasons are not simple. Roland Pease meets some of the experts trying to work out what is to be done. Producer: Roland Pease Image: A man watches the Thomas Fire above Carpinteria, California, Credit: Getty Images

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service.
0:04.7	Join me as I serve up personal conversations
0:07.1	with my sensational guests.
0:08.9	Do a leap, interviews, Tim Cook.
0:11.2	Technology doesn't want to be good or bad.
0:15.0	It's in the hands of the Creator.
0:16.7	It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room.
0:20.6	If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, you're doing the wrong thing.
0:26.0	Julie, but at your service.
0:28.0	Listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. Tonight, it's now a historic emergency the largest fire ever in California now bigger
0:38.0	than the size of Los Angeles a monumental fight for crews on the front lines. Why experts are warning this is the new normal.
0:45.4	The wind is just whipping around different directions but look at those waves shooting outside
0:49.8	that house. This house has been a fire about half an hour now. Firefighters are there and it's very difficult
0:55.3	to stop the flames. California burning. Fires across California are wreaking havoc and devastating
1:01.8	communities.
1:02.6	Time and again another forest or mountainside blaze has been making it into the news.
1:07.9	You see that flame right there by that tower right here behind these holes.
1:12.2	Records are being broken. that
1:15.0	the tower right here behind these holes.
1:20.0	We're talking to the firefighters that have been out here.
1:17.0	They've said that this has been one of the most trying fires and incidents that they've ever been on.
1:20.0	And lives are being lost. As these fires are hopscotching across both northern and southern California, the death toll has now risen to 31.
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