A scientist who built his Pacific Palisades home with wildfires in mind said his careful approach will be the new normal in high-risk areas.
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Severalwildfireshavescorched40,000acresacrossLosAngeles,includingthePacificPalisadesneighborhood.MediaNewsGroup/OrangeCountyRegisterviaGettyImages/MediaNewsGroupviaGettyImages
Thetopscientistatreal-estatefirmCoreLogiclivesinanLAareaaffectedbythePalisadesfire.HowardBottssaidhechosehishome’slocationcarefullyandaddedextraprotectionsagainstfire.Hesaidhishomeissafebutthatbigchallengeslieaheadforhisneighborsandotherhomeowners.Thisas-told-toessayisbasedonaconversationwithHowardBotts,chiefscientistandexecutiveleaderofCoreLogic’sscienceandanalyticsteam,whichstudiestheclimatecrisisandrisksfromnaturaldisasters.Theinterviewhasbeeneditedforlengthandclarity.
IliveintheRusticCanyonareaofPacificPalisades,aneighborhoodinthecityofLosAngeles—20mileswestofdowntown.
We’vehadfiresinthecommunitybefore,butusually,theygetsuppressedprettyquickly.Therecentfiresareananoma
