Fire in Paradise w/ Dani Anguiano

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by The Guardian’s Dani Anguiano to talk about her new book, “Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy.” Dani tells the harrowing details of the November 8, 2018 Camp Fire that claimed the lives of 85 people and destroyed virtually every home in Paradise, California. They also discussed the reality of wildfires and the necessity of prescribed burns, how climate change is affecting their frequency and severity, and how we can address the societal ills that contribute to inequality in the face of natural disasters.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk and Dirty.
0:03.7	Today is Monday, May 10th, 2021 and I'm the
0:17.6	host of the show Kara Santa Maria and I'm really excited about this week's episode
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1:01.2	Okay, this week I had the opportunity to sit down with the co-author of the book
1:05.5	Fire in Paradise and American Tragedy. Now this is some pretty heavy stuff. We're
1:11.5	talking about the Paradise Fire, also known as the
1:16.1	Camp Fire that took place on November 8th, 2018th, in which a community of 27,000 people were really, I mean just surrounded by this devastating fire.
1:28.0	It basically ruined, destroyed pretty much every house, and killed at least 85 people.
1:35.9	We're going to talk about how it happened, what some mitigation strategies in place could
1:40.7	have done, which ones were in place and actually prevented more of a strategy
1:43.9	D and of course what we can do in the future with increasing risk around wildfires.
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