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In 2020... a bill would have required local govt to impose building code, BRUSH MANAGEMENT (fire food) and road design standards on new homes and 
subdivisions built in areas deemed by CalFire to be at high risk. The bill passed the Assembly and Senate ONLY TO BE VETOED BY NEWSOM.

Why California Keeps Putting Homes Where Fires Burn

In 1955, the Ventu Park wildfire tore through the canyons above Malibu, burning nearly 14,000 acres and eight homes. The same area saw two large 
fires burn hillsides and homes over the next three years. There were two in the 1970s, one in the "80s and three in the "90s. This century those 
hills saw the Woolsey fire, one of the most destructive burns in California history. The Franklin fire, which scorched the hills just last month, has 
now been overshadowed by the firestorm that followed.

With the Palisades Fire still ripping through that same fire corridor last weekend, Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to rebuild - and quickly. He signed an 
executive order suspending environmental laws that might delay reconstruction and ordered the state's housing agency to identify building codes that 
could stand in the way of recovery. His administration, he told NBC News, was in the midst of putting together a "Marshall Plan" for post-fire 
reconstruction.

The impulse to restore all that the fires have stripped away may be a basic human one and for Newsom, it's certainly good politics. 

But to many ecologists, economists and other experts on California wildfire risk, the vow to rebuild is part of a familiar California cycle as 
predictable as the Santa Anas: We keep putting homes in the path of the flames.

"The biggest thing to note about these fires in LA is that none of this is surprising," said Erica Fischer, an Oregon State University professor who 
studies wildfire impacts on buildings and public infrastructure.

Between 1990 and 2020, nearly 45% of the homes built in California has broken ground in what researchers and firefighters call the wildland-urban 
interface: the hillsides, ravines and canyons where the furthest frontier of residential development meets and merge with the state's forests, 
scrublands and grasses. That's despite the fact that this area makes up less than 7% of all the land in the state.

It's a particularly risky place to reside. Of all the structures destroyed by wildfire between 1985 and 2013, more than 80% were in that fire-prone 
zone.

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December:

Thailand's Unusual Chill

Drought Of '77 Blamed On Cooling

America's Arctic Outbreak, Updated Forecast

Japan Resorts Near 5 Meters (16.4 Feet) Of Snow

England On For 7th Coldest January Since 1659

The World Is Burning Less

Hemisphere-Wide Freeze Incoming

Polar Conditions Grip SE Europe

Germany's Heating Demand Soars

U.S. Still On Course To Freeze

Wellington's Cold Start To Summer

Iran's Freeze Drives Gas Consumption To Record Highs

"Polar Vortex Watch"

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Above 1979-1990 Average

Pio Xi Glacier Advances

Uk & Ireland Freeze, Gas "Concerningly Low"

All-Time Record Cold In Qatar

Rare Chill Sweeps Taiwan

56% Of The U.S. Is Under Snow, Extreme Cold Inbound

Ireland's Extreme Cold Warnings Extended

Heavy Snow Buries Japan

Northern Hemisphere Snow Trackers

UK Braces For -20c (-4f)

Ideology Above Energy Security

Finland To -38.9c (-38f)

Madhya Pradesh Freezes

Southern US States Expecting Heaviest Snow In Years

Kashmir's Cold Kills

Record Freeze Grips Pakistan

Depleting European Gas Reserves

Michael Mann Ordered To Pay $530,820.21 In Long-Running Lawsuit

UK Shivers At -13.3c (8f)

Cold Winter Exacerbates Romania Gas Crisis

Arctic Blast Continues Across The U.S.

Rare Snow Sweeps Sahara Desert

Europe Plunges Below -30C (-22F), Sees Heavy Snow

U.S. Endures Record Cold

Rare Tashkurgan Snow

Global Temperature Nudges Lower

Thailand Freezes

Record Snow In Japan

Parts Of Morocco See Snow For First Time In 50 Years

Cattle Futures Hit Record High Amid Looming Arctic Blast

Three-Day Snow Warning For UK

Extreme Snowfall Paralyzes Northern Norway

Siberia Nears -60c (-76f)

Record Snows For Uttarakhand

"Dangerous Cold"

Snow Reaches Athens

Delhi Plunges

U.S. To Freeze

Arctic Ice Up 26%

Dal Lake Freezes Over

Extreme Snow Roundup

Antarctic Sea Ice Recovering Quite Nicely, Thank You

Murcia's Record Lows

Red Alert In Bidar Amid India's Cold Wave

Italian Alps Hit -31.1c (-24f)

U.S. Cold-Deaths Double Since 1999-The Establishment Blames Global Warming

Japan's Record-Breaking Snowfall

BBC Still Pushing Polar Bear Propaganda

White Christmas For Europe

Bengaluru's Record Cold

Xinjiang Plummets To Record -42.5c

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Higher Now Than In 1979

Bhopal Breaks 58-Year Record

Vostok At -40c (Again)

The Truth About Iceberg A-68

Extreme Cold And Heavy Snow Slam Finland

Europe Wind Power A "Shit Situation," Says Minister

Winter Weather Grips U.S.

India Reels

Vostok Below -40c

Snow Hits Malaga, Spain

Cold Wave Sweeps Pakistan

Canadian Prairies Near -40c

Texans Warned Of "Extreme Cold"

Antarctic Sea Ice Nearing 1979-1990 Average

"Excellent" Early-Season Snow Across The Alps

Delhi's Record Cold

Chilly Waters Stun Record Number Of Turtles

Record Cold Grips Indore

Asia Chills

Record Snowfall In Midwest

Another Round Of Arctic Air To Hit Much Of North America

Mumbai's Lowest Temp In A Decade

Northern Hemisphere Cold

Russia In The Freezer

India Chills

Northern India's Big Freeze Intensifies

Cold Wave Enters Vietnam

Freezing Lows And Heavy Snows Hit U.S., More To Come

Kashmir Freezes At -18c (-0.4f)

Below Average Antarctic Plateau

Another Round Of Lake-Effect Snow

Cold Waves Lifting Natural Gas Prices

Snow Returns To Scotland And Wider Europe

Global Temperature Tumbles

Antarctic Sea Ice Recovery

Severe Cold Hits Pakistan

Florida Set For Record Cold

Snowy November At Red Mountain

U.S. Battered By Cold And Record Snow

Parts Of Ontario Under A Meter Of Snow

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