Jacob Soboroff
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250 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 7 Aug
Jacob Soboroff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So what's the fire of the future?
I thought that fire this fire was a time machine into my past.
It turns out fires can be a remarkable time machine into the future as well.
And it was one senior emergency emergency management official federal from HHS who had said to me after the fires that what I experienced wasn't just a trip into my past.
but it was a look into the future for all of us because this fire combined the global climate emergency, infrastructure falling apart,
these changes in the way we live and misinformation and disinformation.
And the way that this all combines is the way that we will continue to experience these mass casualty events for years to come.
It's just like what happened in Lahaina.
We have seen fires of this magnitude in Paradise, California, with the Camp Fire.
We have seen, by the way, in the Carolinas and in New Jersey and in the South, extreme weather events that happen more and more and more.
But the but the
way that that combines with federal policy, the cuts from this administration and why those are so potentially damaging could exacerbate all of this is so central and why your question is so good.
not just the national weather service that predicted the particularly dangerous situation is losing meteorologists not just noaa losing the billion dollar disaster registry that keeps track of events like this because of trump administration policies and directives nasa's earth sciences program is under the cutting block they are studying the future of fire through the fire sense program nyosh national institute for occupational safety and health
is losing programs that look out for the health and well-being of firefighters in the wake of big events like this the forest service had hiring freezes at the beginning of this administration during doge that that prevented people from bringing on firefighters fema has lost senior emergency management officials with the political appointees coming in and people leaving almost en masse as an exodus the list goes on and on and on about the ways in which this administration
And credit where credit is due.
They were engaged in a very quick cleanup.
The Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA came in here and cleared a lot of the locks and debris.
That was good.
And the state government deserves credit for partnering them with as well in the municipalities.
But on the federal level and in the bigger picture, the decisions this administration is making is only making
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