Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire

I personally have viewed this film and think it is a wonderful piece that shows us in the Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI) or just in the Wildland, how to survive wildfires with our homes intact. I was incredibly impressed with this film.

I recommended this film called Reimaging Wildfire to Ryne who passed it on to the Grange, who has obtained permission to screen this movie and I think it will be a worthwhile event. As well as showing the film, there will be a Q&A panel afterwards with Matt Harris, Rayner Marx and Chanel Keller of the Esselen Tribe. We also got lucky and Ralph Bloemers- the Executive Producer will also attend. 

Film ELEMENTAL: REIMAGINE WILDFIRE

Friday October 18th at 6:30 pm at the Big Sur Grange.

The film is 84 minutes long, and will be followed by a Q&A
Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire takes viewers on a journey with the top experts in the nation to better understand fire. We follow the harrowing escape from Paradise as the town ignited from wind-driven embers and burned within a few hours of the fire’s start. The film continues to the even more recent fires when California, Oregon, and Colorado suffered some of our worst wildfires in recorded history – when the 2020 windstorm resulted in five simultaneous “megafires”.
The film visits fire labs where researchers torch entire houses to learn why some homes burn and others survive. They learn from Native Americans as they employ fire to benefit nature and increase community safety as they have for thousands of years. They follow researchers who work to understand the effects of climate on forests and the crucial role that natural forests play in storing vast amounts of carbon.
ELEMENTAL: REIMAGINE WILDFIRE is captivating and powerfully informative as we grapple with heat waves, drought, and more fire, ELEMENTAL: REIMAGINE WILDFIRE is a timely and important look at discovering how we can all reimagine our relationship with wildfire.
Q&A Panel:
Matt Harris-
Fire Chief, Big Sur Fire
Rayner Marx
NFPA® Certified Wildfire Mitigation Specialist-Fire Adapted Big Sur Chanel Keller-
Esselen Trible- Cultural Fire Practitioner
Special Guest: Executive Producer Ralph Bloemer
Over the past two years Ralph has investigated the causes of fires, documented wildlife in burned landscapes, volunteered his time to rebuild trails in fire burned areas and spent time in these forests with firefighters, expert scientists and ecologists. Ralph has helped the public, decision makers and students confront the dominant cultural beliefs about fire, and understand the paradoxes that mark our relationship with it.