The Delicate Art—and Evolving Science—of Wildfire Evacuations
The Delicate Art—and Evolving Science—of Wildfire Evacuations
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 6, 20197m 9s
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Show Notes
On the evening of October 23, in the middle of the kind of dry, windy night that has become more frequent and more terrifying in recent California autumns, a fire began outside the small unincorporated Northern California town of Geyserville. Over the next two days, as winds reached hurricane-like strength, they carried the fire south, burning some 75,000 acres and threatening some 90,000 structures as of Wednesday afternoon.
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