1/6 Stanford fire expert had a nice evergreen LA Times op ed that's very relevant for current events: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-17/california-state-agency-fire-preparedness

Regarding the suggestion for a new state agency, it should be a quango with the broader goal to climate proof California

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2/6 What we don’t need is a new competing center complete with turf battles and increased coordination headwinds. Nor do we need a specialized hyper-focused plan producing shop that results in reports that sit on shelves

3/6 What we do need is an integrated, wholistic approach that’s additive, augments and accelerates the transformation of the existing distributed authorities across local land use agencies, emergency response and auxiliary support like water and power utilities

5/6 additional smart and sustainable city transformations like AVs can also enable fire resilience as we saw the catastrophic consequences of abandoned vehicles Tuesday

6/6 there's an urgent need for an adaptive, integrated and digitally native initiative to accelerate climate action -- on both the adaptation and mitigation side of the equation.

6/6 there's an urgent need for an adaptive, integrated and digitally native initiative to accelerate climate action -- on both the adaptation and mitigation side of the equation. https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/the-invisible-cost-of-the-state-capacity-crisis

4/6 For example, megafire preparation intersects with distributed energy generation which enables more water system resiliency to avoid impacts to pumps that impact fire hydrants