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Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), Suburban Wildfire Adaptation Roadmaps: a path to coexisting with wildfires, November 2021
Rebuild Paradise Foundation (Resources and advocacy for rebuilding safely and sustainably the town of Paradise, CA, destroyed in the Camp Fire of 2018. Under "Resources" see "Residential Floor plan library")
City of Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) For emergencies phone 911
City of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) For emergencies phone 911
City of Los Angles essential community services: Phone 211 for help finding the appropriate health or human service agency.
Red Cross disaster assistance (800) 675-5799
SCI-Arc Security (213) 356-5325
Medical facilities near SCI-Arc:
3550 materials rated high in fire resistance, Material Connexion (MCX)
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Bryan, John L., “Building fires,” Journal of Architectural Education, v, 33, no. 4, 1980. p. 32–37
California Fire Code (2022), Title 24, Park 9 (Available via MadCad)
California Residential Code (2019), Title 24, Part 2.5 (Available via MadCad)
Ching, Francis D. K., Building codes illustrated : a guide to understanding the 2018 International Building Code, 6th edition, Wiley, TH420.C49 2018 (Chapter 9, "Fire-protection systems")
Cremers, Jan (Editor), Building openings construction manual : windows, vents, exterior doors, Edition Detail, TH2270.B85 2016 (p. 70-72, 116, 128: "Fire protection")
Fire resistant home construction, University of California Agriculture & Natural Resources
Fire supression products (Available via MadCad)
Heiss, Oliver, Barrier-free design : principles, planning, examples, Birkhäuser, Edition Detail, NA2542.4.H45 2010 (p. 41-2: "Fire protection without barriers")
International Fire Code (2021) (Available via MadCad)
Kent, Douglas, Firescaping : creating fire-resistant landscapes, gardens, and properties in California's diverse environments, Wilderness Press, SB475.9.F57K46 2005
National Association of Counties, Building wildfire resilience: a land use toolbox for county leaders, 11/6/2023
National Fire Protection Association, Firewise USA, 2025 (Fire mitigation strategies)
Neufert, Ernst, Architects' data, 3rd edition, Blackwell Science, TH151.N513 2000 (p. 125-137: "Fire protection and means of escape")
Q Cabin Kits (Pre-fabricated modular constructions designed especially for fire mitigation)
Ramroth, William G., Planning for disaster : how natural and man-made disasters shape the built environment, Kaplan, NA9053.E58R35 2007 (See Chapter 2, "Fire")
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wildfire risk to communities: Reduce risk, 2025
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Authority,Best practices for wildfire resilient subdivision planning, June 2023
California Department of Forstry and Fire Protection
California Fire Code (2022), Title 24, Park 9 (Available via MadCad)
California Residential Code (2019), Title 24, Part 2.5 (Available via MadCad)
Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire, Final recommendations to reduce wildfire risk to existing and future development: Los Angeles County, California, December 2020
Davis, Mike, “The case for letting Malibu burn,” Environmental History Review, 19, no. 2, 1995, p. 1–36 (PDF available via Jstor / Also available in Chapter 3 of Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, Verso Books, 2022, ProQuest Ebook Central)
Didion, Joan, "Fire season" (originally published 1989), in David L. Ulin (Editor), Writing Los Angles, Library of America, PS572.L6W74 2002, p. 503-9.
Diffenbaugh, Noah & Michael Goss, Climate change increases California wildfire risk, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 2020 (PDF available via Jstor)
Field, Chris & Rebecca Miller, Prescribed burns for improved wildfire management in California, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 2020
Gerfen, K., "California is on fire. Again." Architect, September 2020, p. 88 (Click link for PDF)
Lashbrook, T., "Planning’s role in wildfire mitigation," Planning, February 2019, p. 34–35 (Click link for PDF)
Los Angeles Fire Department, Wildfire page
Pyne, Stephen, "Hollywood in flames," Bauwelt, #26, December 20, 2024
Rumbach, Andrew, et al., "When will Los Angeles rebuild? Comparing housing recovery timelines after four recent wildfires," Urban Wire, February 19, 2025 (via urban.org)
Stoner, J., "California burning : architecture’s Pyrocene future," Architectural design, March/April 2023, p. 48–55 (Click link for PDF)
Vale, Thomas (Editor), Fire, Native peoples, and the natural landscape, Island Press, 2002 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Wyatt, David, Five fires : race, catastrophe, and the shaping of California, Oxford University Press, F870.A1W93 1998
Bankoff, Greg, et al. (Editors), Flammable Cities : urban conflagration and the making of the modern world, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Tebeau, Mark. Eating smoke : fire in urban America, 1800-1950, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Zwierlein, Cornel, Prometheus tamed : fire, security, and modernities, 1400 to 1900, Brill, 2021 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
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Keeley, Jon E., et al., Fire in Mediterranean ecosystems : ecology, evolution and management, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
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Maclean, Norman, Young men & fire, University of Chicago Press, SD421.32.M9M33 1992
Miller, Char (Editor), Burn Scars : A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning,
Oregon State University Press, 2024
Mitchell, Jerry, “Fire management 24/7/365: report of a workshop on the mitigation of wildfire risk in the mixed conifer forests of California,” Parks Stewardship Forum, vol. 37, no. 2, 2021, p. 325–30 (Available via Jstor)
Pyne, Stephen J., Here and there : a fire survey, University of Arizona Press, 2018 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Pyne, Stephen J., Between two fires : a fire history of contemporary America, University of Arizona Press, 2015 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
U.S. AirNow Fire and Smoke Map
Weir, John R., Conducting prescribed fires : a comprehensive manual, Texas A&M University Press, 2009 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Glassman, Irvin, et al. Combustion, Elsevier Science & Technology, 2014 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
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