The quest to build wildfire resistant homes
“We have to get out of this idea that evacuating is actually always the best thing to do,” says Kolden. “We used to have community bomb shelters, right? These are functionally community fire shelters. Those are the kinds of conversations we haven’t had. And if we really want to build fire-resistant communities, We have to take them forward.” The basic science of preventing a building from burning down isn’t particularly high-tech or expensive, but it’s the reverse of how we’ve long thought about wildfires. in the 1970s when jack cohen...