14-11-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com

How to survive wildfires: let’s do as nature does

Trees grow thicker bark and animals burrow for protection. We can use similar techniques to save human livesCalifornia wildfires rarely killed civilians in the 20th century. The Griffith Park fire killed 29 in 1933, while 25 died in Oakland in 1991. Now, for the fourth time in just over a year, California wildfires have become deadly. Within the span of 13 months, nearly 100 civilians have died in wildfires in California, and that devastating number is likely to grow based on the missing persons
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