Wildfires regularly sweep through California, destroying forests and threatening homes. But a recent study shows an unexpected danger of the fires: They can shut down, or prevent access to, hospitals and other inpatient facilities.
by California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. According to the agency, fire threats are determined by the likelihood of a fire in a given area and the potential behavior of such a fire. The agency uses a scale that ranges from “low” to “extreme” to help assess the potential effects of a wildfire.Those effects include closures of hospitals, nursing homes and inpatient mental health facilities, the researchers write.
The researchers found that Northern California hospitals are at particular risk because of the lower number of inpatient options in those zones. This is of particular concern, they write, because of the area’s fire hazards.Previous research hasthat human-caused climate change helped double the amount of cumulative forest fire area in the West between 1984 and 2015, and scientists expect that trend to continue as temperatures warm and the landscape dries out.
Given the current and future threats, the research team urges hospital leaders and policymakers to prepare evacuation plans and consider how to react during situations in which hospital access can be disrupted by fires. “As the climate crisis continues to raise wildfire risk,” they write, “it is vital to protect inpatient health care facilities.”
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