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Engineering's Fumiaki Takahashi speaks on West Coast wildfires

MEDIA | September 18, 2020
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

Fire expert says West Coast wildfires won’t be ending anytime soon

WKYC: Fumiaki Takahashi, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the head of the Fire Combustion Laboratory, mentioned climate and growing housing communities in the place where homes and wildlands meet or intermingle, known as the wildland-urban interface, as elements that “make wildfires catastrophic.”