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Collected Item: “Wildfires in California and Unprepared Care Homes”

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Wildfires in California and Unprepared Care Homes

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news article

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Emergency preparedness for California after care homes is lacking in the face of increasingly devastating wildfires, causing pain, trauma, and loss of life for the state's elderly citizens.

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https://www.kqed.org/science/1968076/even-after-care-homes-abandoned-residents-california-still-isnt-ready-for-wildfires

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Molly Peterson, Lisa Pickoff-White, April Dembosky and Danielle Venton

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2020-08-10
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