The two largest firestorms devastating Los Angeles County this week already rank among California’s 20 most damaging wildfires. Before the Palisades and Eaton fires, CalFire stats showed only 18 wildfires in history scorched more structures than preliminary damage tallies from these two Southern California conflagrations.

John Hope Bryant writes about how the solutions—creative, bold, and compassionate—to this devastating crisis are in our hands.

A quick-strike crew of Native American firefighters and journeymen utility workers from the Navajo Nation are helping Los Angeles residents cut through landslides, mangled trees and charred debris of