With the right focus, California can minimize devastating impacts of wildfires

This year is sure to go down as one of the worst wildfire seasons in California’s history.
It is October and already over 4 million acres have burned across our state. In modern state history that is definitely a first.
In fact, looking back over the last 20 years, 2018 was previously the most destructive, with approximately 1.59 million acres burned. We have more than doubled that total and still have over a month left until the end of fire season.
There are several ways that our state an