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My brain again. >> people need to reach out to the governor, through their elected assembly member, to their elected senators, and demand that the utility companies be held accountable. >> yeah, i'd say holding pg&e accountable is the least we can do. not everyone is as hard on pg&e as me. pg&e? >> fall guy. >> fall guy? >> yeah. >> you think there is too much blame on pg&e? >> yeah. >> okay. >> because pg&e didn't come up with the policy to put out every fire, and they didn't let the forestlands get totally out of balance. >> so the fire mace start with them. but if we were doing a better job...

California history. >> agh. lucky for us the fires hadn't made it to where my family lives in oakland, but the air had gotten so bad that it wasn't safe to breathe. so my wife and i took me, the asthmatic, my elderly parent, and our kids straight to vegas. not because we wanted to gamble, but because it was close and there were cheap flights. now back then, it seemed like a oneself-in-a-lifetime thing. >> fire rescue, what is your emergency? >> but ever since, the fires in california have a gotten worse. >> dixie fire. >> woolsey fire. >> are more towns burned to the ground, more forests devas...

Forgotten that relationship. >> yeah. >> and forgotten that natural law is the number one ruler. for example, our ancestors knew that fire is the only thing that at a landscape scale can fight fire. >> since time immemorial, indigenous folks maintained forests known today as cultural burning by setting low intensity, controlled burns at different times, they cleared away dead brush and fuels from the forest floor, protecting the forest from larger fires. but cultural burning was about more than just preventing catastrophic wildfire. the practice also helped promote growth of different traditio...

Never seen anything like this. you can still smell, like, ash and burn, but also smell the trees. there is like a pine smell. there is also maybe a chemical smell, maybe because of all the plastic. it makes my stomach hurt a little bit. never seen this stuff this close up before. >> yeah. it was heartbreaking, man. >> it's been four months. a lot of the stuff has just been sitting here. >> yeah. we're in the midst of it. we're in the midst of the fire. you can still -- it looks like a bomb still went off. >> man. >> i'm just devastated. we're all in this together, you know. this is our whole g...

Going on down. and if you spend time with fire, then you get the lessons. yeah, it's perfect. >> wow. a very zen mind state. >> exactly. there is a lot of people who can benefit from doing this. >> you rant kidding. i pay $125 for therapy. i just come up here. >> the leaders are supposed to be in charge of california's environment still feel they're at war with wildfire, and no one is getting it right. as long as we keep fighting that war, we're spending billions of dollars a year and fire is still burning down the lands. we've been fighting for 100 years. now it's teamed up with climate chang...