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00:00We are stuck in it.
00:02It's hot.
00:03Hot, right now.
00:05There's explosions everywhere.
00:07Ah!
00:08It's okay, you guys.
00:09It's okay.
00:10Oh, my God.
00:11Oh, my God.
00:12The last thing I remember hearing Daniel say was,
00:15don't worry, I'm going to find you.
00:18We have a real problem.
00:20Small towns being incinerated by wildfires we cannot stop.
00:26I had to walk away from everything that we have ever known.
00:29Six of the seven largest wildfires in state history
00:33have happened in the span of just a year.
00:36The idea that we can fireproof this huge landscape.
00:40That's impossible when you've got thousands of homes in the fire's path.
00:45So I'm glad we got out with our lives, you know.
00:48It's the most important thing.
00:50Residents are now left wondering if there's anything that can be done
00:53to keep their communities safe.
00:55The research that has gone on for the last 30-plus years
01:00shows us that we're going in the wrong direction.
01:03Our ancestors included regular cycles of burning.
01:09I do not fight fire. I like fire.
01:12Wildfires, they're part of an ecological stimulus
01:15that rejuvenates the landscape.
01:18We don't have to live in a concrete ammo bunker
01:22to be able to control wildfires.
01:24I didn't spend decades learning about all of this
01:27to not have people use the science.
01:32In a few short years, we could maybe eliminate
01:35communities being destroyed by wildfires.
01:38It's a sacred obligation to bring fire back to the land.
01:43Give us the blessing of fire.
01:45We have huge opportunity.
01:48We wanted to live in the forest.
01:50We didn't expect the forest to adapt to us.