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LA Wildfires Special Coverage with Jacob Margolis

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LAist Science Reporter Jacob Margolis puts the wildfires and the devastation throughout Southern California into context and explains the science of the fires. In this hour, Margolis speaks with several experts about what we know about current wildfires burning across region, their resulting air quality questions, how to make sense of fire updates, and hears from former firefighters.

 

Guests:

Derek Bart, retired LA County Fire Captain

Clare Frank, former Cal Fire chief of fire protection and author of the book Burnt: A Memoir of fighting fire

Mary Johnson, principal research scientist and manager of the Allergy, Climate, and Exposomics Lab at Harvard

Scott Stephens, professor of fire science at UC Berkeley

Jill Replogle, LAist Correspondent

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