On today’s Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll have a conversation about why we should change our approach to fighting wildfires. In 2024, the Forest Service and Department of the Interior combined spent more than $4 billion on wildfire suppression, and only a little more than $700 million on preparedness. Wildland firefighter and writer Lazo Gitchos joins us to talk about these priorities and how they could change.

And we’ll also talk about the health effects of fire smoke on firefighters with Lisa Patel, executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine.

Tune in at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area or stream live at 10am PT. What comments or questions do you have for our guests? Call 866-798-TALK to join the conversation!