How to fight wildfires with science

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How to fight wildfires with science

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Wildfire threatens a home near Possum Kingdom, Texas, April 19, 2011. State Farm, CC BY

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Albert Simeoni, Worcester Polytechnic Institute   In the month of October nearly 250,000 acres, more than 8,000 homes and over 40 people fell vict