Read “ Inside the Massive and Costly Fight Against the Dixie Fire” to learn how California mobilized a military-style operation to contain the wildfire. Officials spent more than $610 million over three months to bring the fire under control - by far the most expensive suppression campaign in California history. Learn more about the fight against the Dixie fire.Īt the height of the containment operation, 6,579 people worked around the clock to battle the Dixie fire.
Why do you think The Times chose to tell the story of the Dixie fire’s firestorms visually? How would the article be different if it were a traditional, text-only piece on wildfires? Going Further How was The Times able to reconstruct a 3-D model of the Dixie fire’s first massive thunderclouds? What other natural environmental phenomena would you like The Times to render in a 3-D model?ħ. What factors have contributed to the landscape burning at record scale?Ħ. “Wildfires on the West Coast have grown larger and more intense in recent years,” the Times article says. Understand the scale and scope of the Dixie fire by finding some numbers in this article: How many firestorms did it create over its life span? How many acres of land were destroyed since the fire began? What altitude did the largest fire clouds reach? Taken together, what picture of the Dixie fire do these numbers present?ĥ. What predictions, if any, did you get right?Ĥ. Compare your prediction from the warm-up activity with the actual process.
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