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OPINION: Wildfire resilience planning can save lives as well as property
On a recent June red flag day, I hiked high in the Mount Charleston Wilderness and looked down on the nearly invisible Las Vegas Valley blanketed with smog from Arizona and California fires, grateful to be above it, but worried about those in the city …