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What Have We Learned About Rebuilding from Fire?

Woolsey Fire survivors reflect on the rebuilding process and what might help rebuild more resiliently after the January fires.

When I first met Nicole Fisher in 2019, her property in the Santa Monica Mountains was nothing but a driveway and a pile of cement. I was interviewing the art teacher for a radio story about her family’s plans to rebuild after the 2018 Woolsey Fire that destroyed her home and hundreds of others in …

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