There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more intensely than twenty-year-old trees. However, because of the power of influential residents living in the Malibu region, since 1919 the local policy has been one of ‘total fire suppression’. This means t

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Broken Angel House Cobble Hill, Brooklyn illegally modified and expanded by eccentric artists and self-taught architects Arthur and Cynthia Wood, condemned after a fire in 2009, and torn down to make way for luxury condos in 2014 https://t.co/hdxwOTEQrW