<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h3 class="locked dj-sg wsj-card-feature heading-4 wsj-headline" itemprop="name" data-reactid=".fznr0m1cg4.1.1.6.1.0.3.c.$2.$1.2:$1.1" style="margin: -4.4px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'chronicle display', georgia, times, '\\30E1イリオ', Meiryo, '\\30D2ラギノ角ゴPro W3', 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro', '\\FF2DＳＰゴシック', 'MS PGothic', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><a class="wsj-headline-link" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/apartment-fires-are-tied-to-cheaper-wood-based-construction-1502988893" data-reactid=".fznr0m1cg4.1.1.6.1.0.3.c.$2.$1.2:$1.1.0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: inherit; outline: none;">Apartment Fires Tied to Cheaper, Wood-Based Construction</a></h3><h3 class="locked dj-sg wsj-card-feature heading-4 wsj-headline" itemprop="name" data-reactid=".fznr0m1cg4.1.1.6.1.0.3.c.$2.$1.2:$1.1" style="margin: -4.4px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'chronicle display', georgia, times, '\\30E1イリオ', Meiryo, '\\30D2ラギノ角ゴPro W3', 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro', '\\FF2DＳＰゴシック', 'MS PGothic', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Whitney SSm', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.01em;" class="">Blazes at construction sites raise questions about use of wooden frames instead of higher-cost metal ones</span></h3><div class=""><div class="at16-col9 at16-offset1 column at12-col7 at8-col8" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 80px; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laura Kusisto</span></div></div><time class="timestamp" style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; line-height: 2.2rem;">Aug. 17, 2017 12:54 p.m. ET</time><div id="share-target" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""></div><div class="wsj-snippet-body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Shortly after Independence Day last year, developer Rick Holliday got a call informing him his 105-unit apartment building, under construction in Oakland, Calf., had gone up in flames.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Behind paywall at Wall Street Journal</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/apartment-fires-are-tied-to-cheaper-wood-based-construction-1502988893" class="">https://www.wsj.com/articles/apartment-fires-are-tied-to-cheaper-wood-based-construction-1502988893</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class="">“Policy and management have focused primarily on ... fire suppression and fuels management. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">These strategies are inadequate to address a new era of western wildfires …. We propose an </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">approach that accepts wildfire as an inevitable catalyst of change and that promotes adaptive </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">responses by ecosystems and residential communities to more warming and wildfire. “<br class=""> <br class="">Schoennagel et al. Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">PNAS Early Edition<br class=""><a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1617464114" class="">www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1617464114</a></div></div>
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