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University of California, Berkeley
Scott Stephens is a professor of fire science and at the University of California, Berkeley and co-director of the UC Center for Forestry and Fire.
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First the inferno, Now the clean-up. What then? The blazes in Northern California are being called "firestorms," "hurricanes" and "blizzards of flame." They've been compared to a "blowtorch." In a state where wildfires are hardly uncommon, experts say civilian casualties and property loss are "historic" — like "nothing [they've] ever seen."
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