Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire

Community loss is a home ignition problem, not a wildfire control problem.

Restoring fire to the land, and to the people.

To think that we can manage these vast landscapes to limit big fires is fairly naive.

The idea that we can fireproof this huge landscape of flammable material is simply an impossible task.

We believe there is a point at which you can prevent a loss.

Firefighter, fire researcher, who has seen big fires, how they move, and what we can do to prepare first hand.

We burn it, and then we burn it a little more, and it makes sense.

Vegetation management can make fire slower and buy a little bit of time for defense, but serving those functions is only relevant if it’s adjacent to an asset that you’re trying to protect.

Firefighter who worked many of the biggest fires in California, and who trains and leads other firefighters on how to respond.

What does living and thriving with fire look like? How do we build a different kind of relationship?

When we look at fire emissions, they're a lot less than people think…the stuff that goes in the atmosphere…it's the small trees, the duff, shrubs, that kind of thing.

Fire in the American West is like this grand reset button, everything starts from that point onward.