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The Fires in Napa, Sonoma, and Santa Rosa Are a Perfectly Normal Apocalypse

Quoted: “Most wildland firefighters are not trained in structural protection, but the urban fire departments are not trained to deal with dozens or hundreds of houses burning at the same time,” says Volker Radeloff, a forestry researcher at the University of Wisconsin. “When these areas with lots of houses burn, the fires become very unpredictable.”