Communities are embracing controlled burns to protect themselves

Christopher Booker:

The edge of the Dixie fire, which burned nearly a million acres last year, was just north of Batha's property. Over more than three months it blazed across five California counties becoming the single largest wildfire in state history.

In August, it ripped through the town of Greenville, destroying nearly 75 percent of its structures. Today, there's not much left of downtown, houses have been leveled and commercial buildings have been reduced to rubble.

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