Chico Enterprise-Record on MSN8h
Watch Duty, the app that uses real people to track wildfires
Funded in 2021, the Watch Duty wildfire alert application has grown from covering three California counties to covering 1,400 ...
Earlier California fire shows how Los Angeles could rebuild
Seven years before wildfires tore through opposite ends of the Los Angeles area, the Tubbs Fire in Northern California's ...
Napa Valley Register10d
Bill Pramuk, Trees and People in Napa Valley: Getting real about fire risks
My first professional exposure to fire risk management with trees and landscapes was back in 1994. It was the second annual ...
CalMatters on MSN10d
Schools post-LA fires
Some schools destroyed years ago in the Sonoma and Butte fires are just now reopening. The long, expensive process of ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat13d
Will new bond funds be enough to rebuild Los Angeles schools — and all of California’s other crumbling schools?
Several others in greater Los Angeles remain closed because they’re in evacuation zones or have been damaged ... replacement ...
Fast Company on MSN14d
The L.A. fires left many immigrant workers jobless. Some may get hired for cleanup—but it’s a dangerous job
In Sonoma County after the Tubbs Fire, Christy Lubin remembers two kinds of disaster ... It can be tough, said Riley of UCLA, to enforce safety regulations in those disaster zones. “It’s a bit of a ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat19d
How Santa Rosa-based app Watch Duty became an indispensable tool during Los Angeles' wildfires
It combines updates from authorities, some gleaned from their own internal dispatches, with fire maps, photos ... retired to Sonoma County in 2020, after eight years as its chief technology ...
The Hindu6d
Earlier California fire shows how Los Angeles could rebuild
In Sonoma County in 2017, residents could choose a ... Discussions from those meetings also led to the city creating a "resilient" zone for fire-damaged areas, with reduced planning and design ...