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Lizzie Johnson

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Lizzie Johnson is a staff writer at The Washington Post. Previously, she worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she reported on fifteen of the deadliest, largest, and most destructive blazes in modern California history, and covered over thirty communities impacted by wildfires. In 2025, she was a finalist for the Livingston Award in International Reporting.

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Journalist Lizzie Johnson shares the definition of “megafire” and offers ideas on how we can prevent wildfire disasters such as the Camp Fire of 2018.