Eight lifesaving ways to improve wildfire risk management

The village of Bédar, in the Almería province of Andalusia, after the July 9 fire. Urci dream/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA As the flames advanced towards the village of Bédar, in the Almería province of Andalusia, the mayor gave a desperate order to ring the church bells to warn residents. It was not enough. The July 9 Los Gallardos fire, which claimed 13 lives and burnt 7,000 hectares, was Spain’s third deadliest on record. Most of the victims were retired foreigners living in isolated homes,…