Hello and welcome to the Curator on Monaco Radio with me, Fernando Gustava Checo.
Over the next 60 minutes,
I'll be bringing you some of the very best interviews and reports from the past week of coverage here on the station,
with highlights from our studios here in Midori House and from around the world.
This week we look at the LA fire's impact on the urban environment.
The flames are moving so fast,
the wind is pushing embers out so far ahead that you can attempt to save individual structures.
But it's mainly an evacuation and a.
Rescue situation, plus the delights of the Thai music scene.
All that and much more in the next hour here on the Curator with me, Fernando Gusto Baseco.
And we start the show indeed in la.
The Urbanist this week looked at the LA fire's impact on the urban environment and invited Andrea Thompson,
the environment,
Energy and Earth Sciences Editor at Scientific American,
to unpack how climate change and urban planning decisions influenced by the climate have caused these wildfires.
So basically, for any fire, you kind of have several ingredients.
The, the initial spark that causes it.
That's something that's still under investigation.
We don't know, and that's going to take several weeks or months to figure out.
But then you have the conditions that that spark happens in.