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Discuss three lessons learned during the recent wildfires in California. What improvements can be made to pre-fire planning? Please reference source if used.

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One of the primary lessons learned during the recent wildfires in California, is that early detection of wildfires is extremely critical. It is extremely critical to detect wildfires as early as possible, due to the fact that wildfires that are detected early, can be contained within a much smaller area, than the widespread area that was affected by the recent California wildfires. In many areas such as British Columbia, early detection has resulted in the ability of firefighters to contain wildfires within a relatively small area, usually less than 10 acres. In respect to this lesson, an ...

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