- 2 March 2021
Last year was the worst fire season in U.S. history. In California, five of the state’s six-largest fires began within a two-month window. Overall, more than a dozen severe weather storms each dealt more than $1 billion in damages across the U.S. Jack Cohen, a research physical fire scientist, advocates for home construction that better stops the spread of wildfires by including nonflammable construction materials and ensuring nothing exists between houses that an ember can engulf in flames. “We need to define the problem as a structure ignition problem, not a wildfire control problem,” Cohen said. His Home Ignition Zone research is supported by the National Fire Protection Association, a part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA has a financial incentive in protecting America’s homes and encouraging local groups to follow the building codes set by the International Code Council. Acting U.S. Fire Administration chief Tonya Hoover said the approximately 2,000 communities that have adopted the council’s building codes have saved the U.S. an average of $1.6 billion in annualized losses from flooding, hurricanes and earthquakes. However, building homes that can withstand natural disasters are expensive and keep people, including the more than 500,000 thousand homeless counted in 2019, outside. “A thousand dollars added to the price of a new home, at any time, in any way, ... will eliminate 153,967 households from being able to buy that home,” said Greg Ugalde, immediate past chairman of the National Association of Home Builders.
The lazy hazy dog days of August are here. The haze is being created by smoke that is streaming North America from the wild fires. We will go in-depth on KSHB-41 at 4 PM! pic.twitter.com/eonBgokV9K
— Gary Lezak (@glezak) August 2, 2021
More devastating wild fires as #climatechange grips central Europe.
— Documenting the Eco Revolution (@DocumentingEco) August 2, 2021
Australia, America and now Europe experiencing record breaking fires in recent history.#ClimateCrisis #wildfires https://t.co/f7VGlJUJvc
#nature #ActNow #ifnotnowwhen?
— Krishna Dev T A (@_krish__17) August 2, 2021
Wild fires in parts of Canada and America is being rigorous now a days. And the number of natural disasters are enormously incresing in a inclining fashion. Let's do something together for our nature. Act wisely and save nature https://t.co/ntkLgDby8s
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