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  • The art of fire: reviving the Indigenous craft of cultural burning

    September 20, 2020 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: Tsilhqot'in Nation, Canada

    A 3-year pilot is developing a traditional fire management program for First Nation communities using cultural burns, a practice banned for over a century. Cultural burns are used to reinvigorate the landscape so that seeds and berries grow and animals return. The low intensity, slow burns also reduce wildfire risks and other issues linked to climate change, such as infestations. Stories about cultural burns are being recorded from tribal elders to preserve the rich cultural knowledge about traditional fire management techniques. First Nations hope to be able to use cultural burns on their tribal lands.

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  • California May Need More Fire to Fix its Wildfire Problem

    September 18, 2020 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Prescribed burns are considered the best way to contain catastrophic wildfires, and fires sparked by lightning or by Native Americans once burned more land in California than has burned in 2020's record-setting fires. But burning its way out of danger is hardly a simple matter for California now. Obstacles are many. Long-standing policies of aggressive fire suppression, plus climate-change-induced drought and pestilence, have amassed more fuel for fires. Dense populations in fire-prone areas, make for daunting logistical and financial obstacles.

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  • Who Can Breathe in Lane County?

    September 18, 2020 |

    Eugene Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    As smoke from local wildfires created an unhealthy outdoor environment, cities in Oregon looked to expand temporary housing options for those experiencing homelessness. While not all have been successful, the Portland area saw success from being able to rely on their "system for responding to severe weather, as well as the Multnomah County’s Emergency Management Department."

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  • How Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters Are Getting the Jobs and Pay They Deserve

    September 17, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Fire and Forestry Recruitment Program serves as an intermediary between formerly incarcerated people trained as firefighters and the agencies they seek work from once they have been released from prison. California has long used incarcerated firefighters in its wildfire-fighting work, paying them poverty wages and then usually denying them the jobs they're trained for outside prison. FFRP has helped more than 100 such people find jobs, using training, certifications, and job-searching help. Its services are in high demand as a lower prison population coincides with record wildfires.

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  • How the Lebanese Diaspora Is Mobilizing Against Food Insecurity at Home

    September 08, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    Volunteer-run organizations are helping those facing food insecurity throughout Beirut by preparing and delivery food on a daily basis. Although the food system in the country remains heavily strained, the grassroots network of organizations are relying on one another for support which has resulted in diverting aid and strategically funneling resources where they're most needed.

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  • Drones Have Earned Their Place in Small-Town Wisconsin

    September 04, 2020 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Linn, Wisconsin

    A drone program has helped the small town of Linn find missing people, rescue people in medical distress, and find multiple drowning victims in the town's lake. Police now spend less time conducting searches and have saved lives with their eye in the sky. By carefully developing policies and by practicing transparency, making flight logs public, the town has eased privacy concerns and earned enough community support to pay for the latest drones with donations.

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  • They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won't Anybody Listen? Audio icon

    August 28, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California’s wildfires historically were contained through periodic but limited burning. But “misguided fire police” over many decades, focused on overzealous fire suppression, has accumulated more dry fuel, resulting in wildfires that have grown progressively larger and more dangerous. Climate change only increases the likelihood of more fires. And the inventory of unburned acreage that has accumulated is now so great that it makes it increasingly difficult to ever catch up.

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  • Why California spends billions but can't control its wildfires. ‘No simple or cheap solution'

    August 27, 2020 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    After 2017's devastating wildfires, the state of California and businesses committed billions of dollars to thinning forests and other fire-prone areas to contain the spread and intensity of wildfires. But the state's "fire deficit," a legacy of more than a century of policies to suppress fires rather than let them periodically consume the fuel on the ground, has been too great to solve the problem quickly. Experts say wildfires like the record-setting conflagrations of 2020, worsened by climate change, will continue without even greater efforts by California and the federal government.

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  • India's first two ‘Tsunami Ready' villages in Odisha

    August 26, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Ventakraipur, Odisha

    Two decades after a massive cyclone killed close to 10,000 people in India's Odisha state, the government's efforts to protect coastal villages vulnerable to cyclones and tsunamis has produced a host of safety measures, from reinforced shelters and early-warning systems to search and evacuation training. Two villages were singled out as the first in the Indian Ocean region to achieve UNESCO's "tsunami ready" certification. A drill in 2019 showed how quickly villagers were trained to respond to an imminent threat.

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  • Community gatherings offer healing for emotional wounds after disasters

    August 25, 2020 |

    Center for Public Integrity |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Rosa, California

    Wildfires cause anxiety and other mental-health problems, but Sonoma County's Latino people can get help from a convivencia: a community gathering hosted by one of the nonprofit health and community centers in the area. To connect with people who may distrust or be blocked from using government-funded mental health care, or who may distrust mental health care altogether, the support-group therapy comes in the guise of a social gathering. Some sessions may focus as well on domestic violence or other social problems.

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