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However, according to Cal Fire, the models do not account for changes in vegetation due to recent wildfires, nor the home hardening and brush management communities have undertaken.

In California, for instance, this means transitioning off fossil fuels, encouraging more prescribed burns and hardening homes against fire.

Ahead of the expected hardening of US policy, more migrant farm workers have been seeking advice on dealing with immigration officials and assigning temporary guardians for their children.

Unless everyone takes the same approach to hardening their property, there’s no hope of avoiding a future disaster, he said.

Henning said Cal Fire declined to grant some of the funding the council requested because the initial proposal “included ‘home hardening’ — which is funded by an alternate grant program.”