HeyJaredWhen Wildfire Comes
Hello, my name is Dr. Christopher Potter and I am a wildfire scientist with over 30 years of experience working for NASA, and with local communities impacted by wildland fires.
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Episode 16 - The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in 2022 with Theresa Davis (opens the original)
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The 2022 Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire stands as the largest and most destructive wildfire in the history of New Mexico. The fire burned 341,470 acres between early April and late June in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains when the U.S. Forest Service lost control of a prescribed burn. The Calf Canyon Fire began on April 9 when an improperly extinguished Forest Service pile burn from January rekindled. Theresa Davis, then a reporter for the Albuquerque Journal, gives a behind-the-scenes acc
Episode 15 – California’s First Gigafire: 2020 August Complex Fire (opens the original)
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This episode is in-depth analysis of the August Complex Fire, which was the most massive fire incident that started in August 2020 during the unprecedented lightning wildfire season. It has officially become the largest wildfire in California's modern history and is frequently described in slang as the state's first "gigafire" because it burned over one million acres of land, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. The fire burned through timberlands in three national forests – the Mendoc
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