Experts say that buildings that remained standing amid the widespread destruction of last month’s wildfires, as well as during previous fire disasters in California, can provide a template for mitigating a conflagration in which flames spread from structure to structure in an urban setting. (Credit: Andy/Adobe Stock)
With city and state officials moving to ensure speedy approvals for projects to rebuild areas devastated by the wildfires in Los Angeles, California’s lawmakers are being urged to expedite rules for fire mitigation strategies that will determine what can be built and where.
The state Legislature passed a bill in 2020 requiring property owners in fire-prone areas to maintain “ember-resistant zones” around their structures, buffers also known as “zone zero.”
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