Wildfires: Big Threats and Big Business
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2008
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The US is losing the fight against wildfires, which are bigger, more numerous and more costly than ever before. We hear how firefighting has become an industry, which sometimes makes matters worse. Can we learn to live more successfully with a growing menace that's not going away? Also, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down, and a massive sheet of ice breaks off from Ellesmere Island in Canada.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.0 | Wildfires, big threats and big business. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alany, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.4 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:20.7 | The United States is fighting more large wildfires than ever before. point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:28.2 | The United States is fighting more large wildfires than ever before, 564 just since the first of this year. They keep getting bigger and more expensive from Florida to Texas to the Rocky Mountains |
| 0:33.7 | in California. On to the point, private contracting for firefighters and their equipment |
| 0:38.3 | can turn potential disasters into bonanzas for local communities. Does firefighting itself create |
| 0:44.7 | future problems? Would preventative management save big money? What are the roles of politics |
| 0:50.1 | and the media? On reporter's notebook later on the ice shelf off Canada's Ellesmere Island is now a lot smaller. First, here's the media. A reporter's notebook later on the ice shelf off Canada's Elmere Island is now a lot smaller. |
| 0:57.6 | First, here's the news. |
| 0:59.4 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio |
| 1:05.1 | International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John |
| 1:09.8 | D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. |
| 1:12.0 | Hello again, Mormon Alany back with To the Point. The U.S. is losing the fight against wildfires, |
| 1:16.6 | which are bigger, more numerous, and more costly than ever before. On To the Point, we'll hear how |
| 1:21.2 | firefighting has become an industry, which sometimes makes matters worse. Can we learn to live |
| 1:25.7 | more successfully with a growing menace that |
| 1:27.8 | is not going away? On reporter's notebook, a massive chunk of ice has broken loose from Canada's |
| 1:32.9 | Elmere Island. We'll hear about climate change and international shipping. First, this news update, |
| 1:38.6 | Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmer, has announced he is effectively stepping down. He will not be |
| 1:43.3 | a candidate to lead his Kadima party in the party's September primary. |
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