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Lucy Walker made a searing film about wildfires in 2021. Now, people may be more inclined to listen

In “Bring Your Own Brigade,” Walker portrays the devastation caused by two wildfires on the same day in 2018 — the Camp Fire that engulfed the northern California city of Paradise and the Woolsey fire in Malibu.

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Firefighters hose down a burning structure on Lake Avenue, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in the downtown Altadena section of Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Though acclaimed, the film didn’t reach an audience as large as Walker had hoped, with its urgent display of the human cost of wildfires and its tough, crucial questions for the future.

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