From the conversation: National Non-Partisan Study of the Los Angeles Fires Could Improve Planning for Future Disasters. https://theconversation.com/a-national-nonpartisan-study-of-the-los-angeles-fires-could-improve-planning-for-future-disasters-247198

“The Los Angeles fires are a national disaster of epic proportions. City officials, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President-elect Donald Trump have traded accusations about what caused this crisis. But as an engineering professor who lives in Los Angeles and has studied extreme events and natural and human-caused disasters for over 40 years, I believe an event with so many lives lost and damages estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars demands a more substantive response.”