Impacts www.wbur.org California fires shine light on little-known private firefighters Private wildfire defense has been around for years. "We've responded to over 550 wildfires on behalf of the insurance industry," the president of Wildfire Defense Systems, Inc. tells Here & Now's Robin Young.
Politics www.theatlantic.com Kim Kardashian's private firefighters expose America’s fault lines “Rich people don’t get their own ‘better’ firefighters, or at least they aren’t supposed to.”
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
