What It's Like to Fight a Megafire
Wildfires have grown more extreme. So have the risks of combatting them
The New Yorker,
2021
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Writing for the New Yorker, M. R. O’Connor describes wildfires from a statistical perspective – number of acres burned, number of dollars spent, number of lives lost – and from a boots-on-the-ground firefighting perspective informed by her personal experiences as a wildfire fighter. Reporting from the front lines of crisis management, O’Connor posts a tragic warning about the increasing difficulty of fighting massive megafires and about fiery hazards facing planet Earth if climate change remains unchecked.
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Certified wildland firefighter M.R. O’Connor’s books include Resurrection Science and Wayfinding. Her next book, Ignition, is about fire ecology.
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