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    Skirball fire underscores calls for collaborative wildfire management

    Dec 08, 2017 4 minutes
    Nancy Rodriguez, a former Red Cross staffer turned volunteer, helps run the evacuation shelter at Branford Recreation Center in Arleta, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 6. Ms. Rodriguez says that while the Red Cross has plenty of resources to respond to a crisis like the fires that have burned through Southern California this week. But in a year of crises – from the hurricanes that struck Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico, to the fires that devasted northern California in October –€“ it is becoming harder to get enough volunteers to come help, she says. "This year we've seen so many areas that have needed an increase in volunteers," she says. "Everyone's been through some type of something."

    On the morning of Dec. 6, Laura Lenk woke to the sound of sirens.

    She had parked for the night at a lot at the Leo Baeck Temple, a synagogue tucked into the hills of northwest Los Angeles that provides free, safe parking for people who live in their vehicles. As fire trucks whizzed by early that morning, Ms. Lenk thought there must have been an accident on the nearby 405 freeway.

    Then she pulled down the sunshade she’d placed on her windshield and saw the flames.

    “It looked like the whole hillside was on fire,” Lenk says, sitting at the evacuation center in Arleta, Calif., where she

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