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Out of control wildfires in the western U.S. have dominated the headlines every summer for decades. Experts typically point to climate change as the culprit, and it is certainly one cause. But a second major factor behind many of them should serve as a warning for the Memphis area. In her book, award-winning journalist Katherine Blunt explores what she calls the “criminal neglect of the infrastructure at the Golden State’s largest utility.
