Climate Scientist Driven From Home by California Wildfire Rips 'Uninformed' Trump

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Climate Scientist Driven From Home by California Wildfire Rips ‘Uninformed’ Trump

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11.10.18 8:49 PM ET REUTERS

MALIBU, Calif.—“You write about it. You study it. Then you suddenly get a call at 11:30 p.m. saying your home is under voluntary evacuation. Then you see that red glow in your rear mirror when you leave.

“You have to experience it.”


Glen MacDonald, a geography professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has studied climate change and the effects of wildfires for decades. But it wasn’t until Friday night that he experienced the volatile, deadly rage of California’s wildfires firsthand.

MacDonald and his family were among the hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in Southern California as wildfires continue to sweep through the region, gutting houses and leaving much of the area engulfed in smoke and fumes................................



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Glen MacDonald has studied climate change and the effects of wildfires for decades. But it wasn’t until Friday he experienced the deadly rage of California’s wildfires firsthand.