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Tom Cova in the Los Angeles Times
Tom Cova has been featured in an Los Angeles Times article about wildfire hazards in Mission Canyon outside Santa Barbara, CA. The article discusses his research on evacuating wildfire-prone neighborhoods. He notes that planning regulations around the country pay little attention to the number of people who will have to use exit roads in a wildfire. The American West is studded with these "scenic firetraps," and in most of these areas the likelihood of an extreme fire is increasing.
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