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Why Wildfires Are Becoming More Powerful
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Why Wildfires Are Becoming More Powerful

52 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Wildfires used to be seasonal nuisances; now they level entire towns in minutes. This film follows the science behind that shift through three case studies: the Station Fire that tore through the mountains above Los Angeles, and the fast-moving outbreaks that hit Portugal and France. Fire scientists and first responders explain how drought, wind patterns, and decades of fuel buildup have changed the basic physics of how a fire spreads, turning what were once containable brush fires into fronts that can outrun evacuation orders. Footage from the fire lines shows crews and aircraft struggling against flames that behave less predictably than the models they were trained on, while interviews lay out the feedback loops, drier vegetation, hotter summers, more fuel, that are pushing fire behavior into new territory. The film treats this as an engineering and climate problem as much as a disaster story, asking what firefighting and land management need to change if these conditions are the new normal rather than an anomaly.