The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety shoots embers at a duplex, with half of it traditional construction and half of it hardened against fire.
“Elemental: Redefining our Relationship with Wildfire” – a new documentary by local filmmakers premiering Wednesday at the Hollywood Theater, and with a heavy focus on Oregon – opens with a horrifying yet increasingly familiar montage of some of the most destructive and deadly western wildfires in recent memory.
As archival news footage rolls of neighborhoods in ruin, a reporter poses one of the central questions that this illuminating and visually arresting film sets out to answer:
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