10:I[8479,["349","static/chunks/349-c9bb88602114b6df.js","173","static/chunks/173-8ffc04d433c3339f.js","865","static/chunks/865-f26eeb7d8a4ff1d6.js","444","static/chunks/app/episode/%5Buuid%5D/page-e9df19c6dc9fc3dd.js"],"EpisodeClient"] 11:T40f,"Wildfire" is the word we tend to use when we talk about what Los Angeles has been dealing with the past week.
But Lori Moore-Merrell, the U.S. Fire Administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency used a different word, when she spoke to NPR this morning.

She described a "conflagration." Saying they're not wildland fires with trees burning. They're structure to structure fire spread.

They may have started at the suburban fringe, but they didn't stay there. Which prompts a question: what happens when fire meets city?

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NPR Privacy Policy12:T40f,"Wildfire" is the word we tend to use when we talk about what Los Angeles has been dealing with the past week.
But Lori Moore-Merrell, the U.S. Fire Administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency used a different word, when she spoke to NPR this morning.

She described a "conflagration." Saying they're not wildland fires with trees burning. They're structure to structure fire spread.

They may have started at the suburban fringe, but they didn't stay there. Which prompts a question: what happens when fire meets city?

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What happens when wildland fire reaches the city?