How cities in the West can prepare for the Western wildfire threat
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Wildfires aren't just in the wilderness anymore. We discuss resilience, retrofit and the urgent need for new regulations as fires threaten Western American cities. Natasha Stavros and Erica Fischer join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 1:00.1 | This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi. It's hard to adequately describe the intense heat, |
| 1:14.4 | the hurricane force winds, the hellish fire that destroyed 1,000 homes and other buildings |
| 1:20.9 | in Colorado on December 30th. It's hard to understand how fast the fire moved, how large |
| 1:27.6 | it grew and how close people came to losing their lives. Until you hear moments like this, |
| 1:35.1 | families in a Lewisville, Colorado restaurant, enjoying a meal one minute, then the next |
| 1:42.0 | minute, looking through the windows and seeing a wall of fire coming at them and then trying |
| 1:48.2 | to push open the restaurant doors to escape. |
| 2:07.9 | While Cynthia Wallace was at home in Lewisville that day too. |
| 2:24.1 | And then we got a text from one of our neighbors saying, hey, there's a brush fire across the |
| 2:41.3 | highway. Just let me know. Like, okay, well, you know, we're in a suburban neighborhood. |
| 2:48.1 | And then the smoke just started getting worse and around one o'clock, my husband was in |
| 2:56.2 | the backyard just trying to water down our fence in case, you know, some sparks came our |
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