I'm John Batsch with Daniel Clow, the author of the new book on Kowalas, highly recommend.

And we're not speaking of the tragedy in Kala's Daniel has taught me that koas have

known hospital system.

They're extremely vulnerable to fires because they cling to their eucalyptus trees and that

is extremely dangerous but that is nature.

Quals have been there tens of millions of years so they're survivors.

People, a couple hundred years, we'll see. Daniel, we come to El Nino. It's upon you. Your Metropolitan

your Metropolitan Weather Bureau waited a long time to declare it, but it has now declared. What that means is hot and

dry and I've been following your weather throughout Australia you've had a lot of

heat and a lot of dry air early.

Does this look to be a dangerous fire season or just ordinary?

The fire season, I regard all fire seasons as dangerous. You never know when one's going to hit. We had a fire two

years ago that went through our neighborhood and burnt right along the edge of my

properties and that was not a bad season and it was not a high risk day.

Unfortunately that was an arsonist who did a very good job of setting fire to the park below my house.

So these things can happen at any time under the strangest

conditions. However, you know, the dry conditions and the hot summers

combined with a high fuel load from previous wet years does make for dangerous conditions in many areas.

And we know that with climate change, the incidents and frequency and severity of fires is increasing rapidly.

So we are now seeing far more fires than we have in the past and that just increases everybody's risk.

So yes, we are looking at a scenario of increased fire risk for across most of the country.

And the fires, the question here in the the of loss of life. And the question in Hawaii recently with the Maui Fire, do you build

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