Like a candle in the wind: Mill Valley readies to ensure next megafire won’t happen here

THERE’S A NIGHTMARISH OCTOBER SURPRISE potentially looming for the bucolic Marin County community of Mill Valley: a wildfire of such destructive scope that it obliterates the entire town.

Mill Valley’s residents are anything but paralyzed by this existential threat, however. Following examples set by citizens of other wildfire-vulnerable countries, they’re rapidly ramping up their defenses against disastrous “megafires.”