Wildfire Preparedness and Community Resilience: What California's Diverse Communities Need to Know

The goal of the briefing was to equip ethnic and independent media with information they can share with communities before the next emergency, not after the flames arrive.

Ritu Marwah•Aug 31, 2026 01:00 AM• 7 views

Los Angeles: A house is engulfed by the flames on the site of the Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County, California

Credit: Courtesy: IANS/Xinhua

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Ritu Marwah is an award-winning author. She won the 2023 Ethnic Media Services award for outstanding international reporting; 2022 San Francisco Press Club Journalism excellence award as well as 2021 and 2020 California Award for Journalism. A alum of St Stephens College and Tata Administrative Services she now lives in Silicon Valley with her husband and fruit trees.

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