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As fires devour flammable brush and vegetation, the heat propels burning embers upward.

Another independent study found that both hardening the home and clearing nearby spaces of flammable brush cut the chance of destruction in half — from 40% chance to 20%.

“You see these people and they go, ‘Why do they live in the brush?’

Camarillo sits in a chaparral ecosystem — one dominated by dry fire-loving brush that, as a natural part of the ecosystem’s life cycle, routinely burns.

Brush yourselves off and stay in the fight.