If you're driving a car during a wildfire, do your best to stay calm. You can increase your chances of survival by taking as many safety tips as possible and remaining as calm as you can.

Check social media and the news for any information about where the fire is and where it's heading. 【小题1】 If you know or can see the direction the fire is moving in, try to drive away from it as best as you can.

Drive slowly and turn on your headlights and hazard lights（危险警示灯）. 【小题2】 By doing so firefighters around might see your car and help you.

【小题3】 Accidents are a major risk in poor driving conditions. People and animals might be frightened and running on the road. If you're worried that people or animals are nearby but you can't see them, use your horn（喇叭）.

Cover your nose and mouth with a cloth and turn up all the windows to protect yourself from the smoky air while you drive

Keep the radio on while driving. Keep listening to the radio for information about where the fir is heading. Check online and social media for updates on the fire if you have another person in you car. Is it growing in a new direction? 【小题4】 This is valuable information that might cause you to change course and could save your life.

Pull over if you see flames getting closer. If your way becomes blocked（阻挡）or you can see the fire moving towards you, pull the car over to a safe area. 【小题5】

The United States gets hit by some of the strongest and most destructive (破坏性的) storms on Earth. Examples of extreme weather include hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts. But the storms themselves are not the only problem. Weather experts say human choices about where and what to build are making the situation much worse.

Kathie Dello is a climatologist with the state of North Carolina. She told The Associated Press the main reason why the US gets many intense and destructive storms is its geography

Dello described a repeating weather pattern that leads to many strong US storms. The pattern involves (涉及)dry air from the western US moving up over the Rocky Mountains. There, it crashes into warm, wetter air from the Gulf of Mexico

Overall, the US South experiences more extreme weather than the other parts of the country. Areas in the South can experience every single type of extreme weather event. These include wildfires, tornadoes, floods and hurricanes

In the West, people face wildfires as well as a bad weather event known as an atmospheric (大气的) river. Atmospheric rivers are long and wide areas of water vapor that form over an ocean. When atmospheric rivers reach land, they often give off water vapor in the form of rain or snow.

The US Northeast experiences strong storms in the winter and hurricanes in the summer. Sometimes it experiences an unusual combination of both. It is a reality that regardless of where you are in the country, where your hometown is, you’ve likely experienced a high-impact weather event.

But weather experts say even though geography puts Americans in the path of many strong storms, human activity can make the storms more destructive. One of the main problems is when communities permit development in areas with a high risk of storms and flooding. In some cases, the experts say building standards have gone down in recent years, putting more buildings at risk during strong storms. In addition, poverty can make it difficult for people to prepare for and recover from disasters.

More than 170,000 people in California are unhoused. Even as the state has poured resources into fighting against the problem, the number of people without homes has ticked upward in recent years. On the surface, the state has one key advantage for people without a reliable roof over their heads: relatively consistent and livable weather. So one of my first thoughts when I heard news of a horricane attacking Los Angeles was just “What will happen to the city’s homeless population?”

City agencies quickly took action. As it became clear that the Los Angeles region could experience an extreme downpour and subsequent flooding, outreach teams fanned out across the river bank and dam areas across the city that have become home to a significant unhoused population, offering support to move them into shelters and motels (汽车旅馆).

Despite that, it’s obvious that the effects of climate change will hit the most vulnerable (脆弱的) hardest. We see this globally as extreme weather events hit countries that have contributed the least to the problem.

The most notable connection between climate change and the US housing crisis is the threat extreme weather poses to unhoused people. More unhoused people are affected as climate change drives increasingly unpredictable weather. People without homes know how to respond to expected seasonal events. But events like a near-hurricane in Los Angeles or a wildfire in ‘Maui can catch populations with limited access to information off guard.

Another link worth considering is the way in which climate change creates more homelessness and further stresses on housing systems. Hurricane Katrina, for example, displaced 800, 000 people. Four years later, 12,000 people remained without shelter.

Housing has been — and will continue to be — a key issue in Maui too as it recovers from the wildfire that killed more than 100 people. Maui has already had a housing crisis, the result of a high cost of living driven in large part by the tourism industry. And, now, many more are left looking for places to stay. Ashley Kelly, the chief operating officer at Hawaii’s Family Life Center, said: “Finding housing for any new clients is just not possible right now.”