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California Developers Build on Fire-Prone Land

Despite increased fire risks in Southern California, thousands of new homes are being built, and more are planned, in areas deemed "extreme fire danger." The cost to homeowners, insurers, fire departments as well as state, county, and city emergency response departments is enormous.

Rob Schmitz reports from member station KQED.

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Rob Schmitz
Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.