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
okay. need another reason to heighten your already heightened sense of post 2020 panic? nine out of the ten largest wildfires in california history have occurred in the last decade. in 2021, the dixie fire alone burnt 963,000 acres. that s bigger than rhode island. feel even more panic now? good. me too. with a problem this big and scary, there must be people with solutions that can also calm me down with some slightly peppy and measured tones. yep, i m talking weathermen. specifically, meteorologists. really appreciate you both really have meteorology hands. patrick brown is a meteorologist, climate expert and professor at san jose state university s wildfire interdisciplinary research center. and holt hanley, a great weatherman name, his grad student and on air weather ankle for kspw.
have been extremely challenging. a new all time record high of 49.5 c, just over 121 fahrenheit. that was said on tuesday and in the united states the pacific northwest is also experiencing dangerous heat levels. let s talk to jodi dangerous heat levels. let s talk tojodi hughes, a weather ankle weather anchor in calgary. you look like you are outside and i assume it is extremely hot. talk us through what you are experiencing at the moment. n0 audio 28- 29 the moment. n0 audio 28 29 degrees outside but in my house it is even warmer. i do not have air conditioning in my house and i am typical in that not a lot of albertans have air conditioning and so we have air conditioning and so we have seen an increasing number of people booking a hotel room just to get. i am one of those, that is where we re