Record-breaking blazes across the West have shown the limits of fire suppression. Answers may lie in longer-term management of the land. By/November 30, 2020Wildfire has illuminated Norm Brown’s life. In 1983, he joined California’s primary firefighting agency, known as Cal Fire, and during the next three decades, he worked thousands of fires, protecting lives, homes, and land. He retired as a deputy chief in 2017, and since then he has stayed close to the flames – by choice and by chance.As a member of the Mendocino County Prescribed Burn Association, a volunteer coalition of...…Record-breaking blazes across the West have shown the limits of fire suppression. Answers may lie in longer-term management of the land. By/November 30, 2020Wildfire has illuminated Norm Brown’s life. In 1983, he joined California’s primary firefighting agency, known as Cal Fire, and during the next three decades, he worked thousands of fires, protecting lives, homes, and land. He retired as a deputy chief in 2017, and since then he has stayed close to the flames – by choice and by chance.As a member of the Mendocino County Prescribed Burn Association, a volunteer coalition of...WW…