A simple but seldom-used tactic to prevent wildfires: Turn off the power grid when winds pick up

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Bettina Boxall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times, in which Wildfire NOTD subscribers Susan Kocher, a Natural Resources Advisor at the UC Cooperative Extension, Central Sierra, and Rick Halsey, the Director of the California Chaparral Institute, discussed how better to prepare for and act during wildfires in the Golden State.

A simple but seldom-used tactic to prevent wildfires: Turn off the power grid when winds pick up

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