Tuesday night, a historic wind event swept through Southern California, spreading horrifying fires that torched a dense urban patchwork of homes, institutions and businesses.
In neighborhoods like these, often far from the wildland-urban interface, it's almost impossible to clear enough brush to make homes defensible, as the wildfire expert Zeke Lunder noted on Tuesday.
These years of fire have also initiated a set of arguments about its driving factors - to what extent the new disaster landscape is the result of climate conditions or fuel buildup from decades of fire suppression.
The only thing that will stop this is when the earth, probably long after we're gone, relaxes into a more predictable weather state.
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