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LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety – schools can do much more to teach it

By Elizabeth A. Logan, Associate Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
William Deverell, Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Managing fire risk is about more than regulations and rules. It’s also about caring for neighbors and taking steps on your own property and in your community to help keep neighbors safe.

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