L.A. Wildfires: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

About this episode

This episode reflects on the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles, exploring their origins and future risk reduction strategies.

There's been time to reflect on the horrific wildfires in Los Angeles of January 2025. What have we learned about the fires’ origins? And more importantly what have we learned about what could have been done—and what still could be done—to reduce the risks of such devastating fires in the future? We explore these questions on this episode of Independent Conversations.

Topics covered

• wildfires
• Los Angeles
• disaster management
• climate change
• risk reduction

Keywords

• wildfires
• Los Angeles
• January 2025
• disaster response
• climate risks

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Los Angeles

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