Posts Tagged ‘fires’
Lizzie Johnson on how Paradise portends a future written in flames
Lizzie Johnson, a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, covered fifteen of California’s deadliest fires. However, none reached the level of death and destruction that she witnessed in Paradise on Nov. 8, 2018. Within two hours of the fire’s…
Read MoreJaime Lowe on fighting fires and doing time
Jaime Lowe connects us with the female inmates who are battling California’s wildfires. In her new book “” she takes readers inside the fire camps where inmates are paid $5 a day and pay a physical and emotional price for putting their lives on the…
Read MoreJames Thebaut’s lens on California’s watershed
James Thebaut is a Los Angeles ecological documentarian and long-time environmental activist. He argues in his latest documentary, “” now airing on PBS, that the intensity of California’s wildfires is due as much to bad policy as it is to climate…
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