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How are climate change and an aging infrastructure affecting wildfire risk?

A deep dive into Pacific Gas and Electric and the Paradise Fire in California.

Broadcast on:
23 Apr 2024

A series of powerlines on an orange background.
(Katherine Blunt)

It has been close to 9 months since the deadly fire in Maui destroyed the town of Lahaina and it’s been five years since a fire decimated the town of Paradise, California. Could an aging utility infrastructure, along with wildfire risk, be a major culprit behind these disasters?

Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the book “California Burning" Katherine Blunt joined Idaho Matters to talk more about these fires.