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# News 21 State Of Emergency Episode 3: The New Normal
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/news-21-state-of-emergency-episode-3-the-new-normal/
- Published: 2019-09-17T09:00:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T02:23:25.000Z
- Description: Wildfires are becoming an ever more present threat and forcing communities in the western United States to learn to live with them. Episode 3 of News21's State of Emergency series.
- Author: Dustin Patar, director/News21
- Tags: Documentaries, iowawatch, disaster recovery, documentary, FEMA, natural disasters, News21, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

*Episode 3: The New Normal*

Wildfires are becoming an ever more present threat and forcing communities in the West to learn to live with them. But is it possible for people and fire to coexist? This is episode 3 of News21’s four-part documentary series “State of Emergency.”

*Directed by Dustin Patar*  
  
[State of Emergency, Episode 3: The New Normal](https://vimeo.com/353429055?ref=investigatemidwest.org) from [News21](https://vimeo.com/news21?ref=investigatemidwest.org) on [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/?ref=investigatemidwest.org).

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*About this project:* 
*This report is part of* [*State of Emergency, a project*](https://stateofemergency.news21.com/?ref=investigatemidwest.org) *produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project by top college journalism students and recent graduates from across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.*