Editorial: Will California ever learn anything from its wildfires?
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Oct 25, 2019
3 minutes
To anyone who's followed the news of wildfires in California in recent years - or this week's Tick fire - the 200-page report commissioned by Los Angeles County officials on last year's Woolsey fire will sound terrifyingly familiar.
The Woolsey fire, which burned nearly 100,000 acres from Oak Park to Malibu, was bigger, faster and more destructive than anyone expected, according to the county's report. Even in a region accustomed to and prepared for fires, the blaze shocked
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