Norco 80

Digesting what we’ve learned. Plus, how other places in the U.S. have figured out fire management.

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Jacob and retired LA County Fire Captain Derek Bart answer your burning questions. 

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Why prescribed burning won’t solve all of our fire woes.

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We know prescribed burning is a major solution…so why aren’t we doing more of it?

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What it’s like to put good fire to the ground.

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Gold, genocide and colonialism: our path to seeing fire as the enemy.

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Why trees that are adapted to living with fire are now burning… and how we might save them.

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Norco 80 listeners, introducing The Big Disaster: The Big Burn from LAist Studios. As the world enters a new age of wildfires, science reporter Jacob Margolis dives deep into personal stories that illuminate the history of how we got here, why we keep screwing things up, and what we can do to survive and maybe even thrive while the world around us burns. 

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Frank Malina is wracked with inner conflict over working for the military. His calls for scientific advancement for the purpose of bettering humanity fall on deaf ears, which leads him to embrace a political philosophy that the US government is increasingly hostile towards.

The semi-successful Halloween test earns the squad some legitimacy and some money. Without consistent funding, though, the Suicide Squad breaks up before they've really gotten started. Until the U.S. government is caught off guard by the Nazis’ technological advancements and decides it needs to accelerate its own rocketry production — fast.