Maui fires suggest dangerous new phase for disasters

Chris Field, director of the Stanford Woods Institute of the Environment, shared a similar perspective about the Maui fires, expressing his surprise about “how many different ways there are for wildfires to become catastrophic.” 

“This fire in Maui wasn’t gigantic and it certainly wasn’t in an area that’s heavily forested,” he told The Hill. 

Nonetheless, scientists are increasingly finding “that the combination of dry fuels and high winds can make lots of different kinds of places vulnerable to wildfire,” he explained. This is why the Maui disaster developed “in a place that isn’t a classic wildfire area,” according to Field.  ...

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