00:00During 2020, California alone had over 10,000 wildfires, with over 4 million acres burned, at a cost of over $12 billion.
00:12Six of these fires over this period are in the state's top 20 largest fires ever.
00:19When I first started my career, a large campaign fire would take, maybe on the long side, two weeks and would burn 10, maybe 15,000 acres.
00:28Now we're seeing the same amount of acreage in a single day.
00:32Like we have seen in years past, the fires are getting worse.
00:36The environment is slow to react because of the environment and the fire severity that we're living with now.
00:43We have to be dramatic about how we approach fire in the West and doing things that we maybe wouldn't have thought about 10 years ago.
00:51We just need to ensure that we are doing our best to try to prevent this from happening again in the future.
00:56Hey guys, get back away from that fire!
00:58Spray him! Spray him!
00:59Kalfire continues to adapt their tactics to fight megafires.
01:03But in a battle of attrition, can man overcome the unrelenting force of nature gone wild?
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