With several large wildfires burning up and down the state of California, it's safe to declare the 2024 wildfire season officially underway.  And after two straight years of wet winter and subdued wildfire activity ... Californians could be lulled into a false sense of security.

This fire season could be a bad one.  And KNX chief correspondent Charles Feldman wanted to know why we keep making the same mistakes when it comes to failing to adequately prepare for intensifying wildfires.  So he called up Luca Carmignani, a fire advisor to the University of California Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources.

The National Interagency Fire Center is predicting 2024 to a more intense fire season than usual for the entire North American continent.