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News 21 State Of Emergency Episode 3: The New Normal

Wildfires are becoming an ever more present threat and forcing communities in the western United States to learn to live with them. Episode 3 of News21's State of Emergency series.

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News 21 State Of Emergency Episode 3: The New Normal
Smoke from her burn pile curls through the forest canopy as Kelly Loew, a mail carrier in Shingletown, California, looks up at all of the pine branches she still needs to cut down to make defensible space around her home.

Episode 3: The New Normal

Wildfires are becoming an ever more present threat and forcing communities in the West to learn to live with them. But is it possible for people and fire to coexist? This is episode 3 of News21’s four-part documentary series “State of Emergency.”

Directed by Dustin Patar

State of Emergency, Episode 3: The New Normal from News21 on Vimeo.

About this project:
This report is part of State of Emergency, a project produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project by top college journalism students and recent graduates from across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

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