gotten so bad that it wasn t safe to breathe. so my wife and i took me, the asthmatic, my elderly parent, and our kids straight to vegas. not because we wanted to gamble, but because it was close and there were cheap flights. now back then, it seemed like a oneself-in-a-lifetime thing. rescue, what is your emergency? reporter: but ever since, the fires in california have gotten worse. dixie fire. woolsey fire. are more towns burned to the ground, more forests devastated and more refugees. this episode is about californians and fire, because we got to learn how to get along. now if you re thinking that you re safe because you live outside of california, nope. wildfires happen across america, from alaska to florida. and they happen all over the world. wildfires sweeping across australia. cape town. estonia and turkey. all the way to the north pole. and even if they aren t happening near you, the effects are definitely coming to your doorstep. there i
california history. agh. lucky for us the fires hadn t made it to where my family lives in oakland, but the air had gotten so bad that it wasn t safe to breathe. so my wife and i took me, the asthmatic, my elderly parent, and our kids straight to vegas. not because we wanted to gamble, but because it was close and there were cheap flights. now back then, it seemed like a oneself-in-a-lifetime thing. fire rescue, what is your emergency? but ever since, the fires in california have a gotten worse. dixie fire. woolsey fire. are more towns burned to the ground, more forests devastated and more refugees. this episode is about californians and fire, because we got to learn how to get along. now if you re thinking that you re safe because you live outside of california, nope. wildfires happen across america, from alaska to florida. and they happen all over the world. wildfires sweeping across australia. cape town. estonia and turkey. nigeria. all the wa
two years. and that s been a godsend. talk more about ways you think people can rebuild in a safer way. so we have the wui, the wild land urban interface. building codes went into effect. these building codes do help prevent houses from burning down. the other is defensible space. just by keeping all the brush away from your house, give it some space, use lots of rock. be proactive about how you maintain your yard, decrease the chances of your house burning down immensely. if you want to live up here in this beautiful picturesque part of the world you have to do it responsibly. oh, yeah. it definitely comes with some maintenance. .an independent organization that sets strict quality and purity standards. nature made. the number one pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. so we need something super disctintive. dad s work, meet daughter s playtime.
forgotten that relationship. yeah. and forgotten that natural law is the number one ruler. for example, our ancestors knew that fire is the only thing that at a landscape scale can fight fire. since time immemorial, indigenous folks maintained forests known today as cultural burning by setting low intensity, controlled burns at different times, they cleared away dead brush and fuels from the forest floor, protecting the forest from larger fires. but cultural burning was about more than just preventing catastrophic wildfire. the practice also helped promote growth of different traditional food sources and fire resistant species. indigenous folks knew what they were doing. i mean, that s the way the tribes did it. and they never put out a fire. if there is a fire that happened on a ridge, they let it burn down and do what it s going to do naturally. it s the only way to manage that much land. is there a part of this that maybe you feel like if we had been in charge of this land
this fire absolutely would not have happened if it were cared for by tribal people. and we want to be able to share our knowledge, and people are continually asking us, can we do cultural burning. well, are you tribal? and why would you want to do cultural burning without us? ooh, yeah. look what happened when the white man got yoga. look how that went. we re starting to try to sway the agencies to think about native burning. yep, yeah. and that s passing on that traditional knowledge that it does have value, even if you re not indian. like here and now today, how can we change human behavior, and how can we rebuild that relationship of humanity to this earth? only way to maintain these forests is quit fighting mother nature. because mother nature is going to win. yeah. you know, even in the talk about how the climate is changing, we act like the earth is coming to an end. no, the earth is still going to be here. we just may not be here with it. yeah.