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Kim Bojórquez, “Why this Group of Californians is Especially Vulnerable to Wildfires, Pandemics,” Sacramento Bee, 8 September 2020, www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article245268295.html.

This article introduces participants to ways in which fires—like the Thomas fire— disproportionately impact particular communities. Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities are 50% more likely to face hardship after wildfires. This article describes how, in the case of the Thomas Fire, undocumented Latinx and Indigenous Latin American migrant farmworkers (who may not have fluency in Spanish) faced injustices after the fire because of their inability to access public service infrastructures and the lack of non-English language materials.

The sun shines on an agricultural field. Image from Unsplash: Images for Everyone