1. Public Health Emergency

A public health emergency has been declared due to smoke pollution, which is another big threat to people’s health.

2. Economic Fallout

Insurance companies will have to bear losses worth billions of dollars, because entire neighborhoods have been destroyed.

3. Federal Support

President Joe Biden has promised federal aid, but how quickly and how effective this aid will be remains to be seen.

Learn from the fire

This incident is a warning that the effects of climate change cannot be ignored. Such disasters could become even more intense in the times to come if environmental policies and disaster preparedness are not strengthened.

The time has now come for us to become more sensitive towards nature and the environment and prepare our systems for such disasters. Even amidst the darkness of wildfires, there is a ray of hope that with human resilience and unity we will overcome such crises.