The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare sometimes talks about coronavirus in terms of wildfire — stopping sparks before they ignite and turn into something much bigger.

But how is the COVID-19 outbreak going to affect the state’s ability to fight literal wildfires? Rebecca Boone of the Associated Press joins us to discuss how the spread of coronavirus is complicating preparations for this year’s wildfire season.

Then, historian Tara Rowe outlines some of the many parallels between the COVID-19 outbreak and the influenza pandemic of 1918, and what lessons Idaho can take from that tragedy one hundred years later.