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9780547792088
0547792085
9780544227996
0544227999
Author
Kodas, Michael
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Megafire : the race to extinguish a deadly epidemic of flame / Michael Kodas.
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Mega fire
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
©2017.
Description
xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-349) and index.
Contents
Everybody's hometown -- Yarnell Hill -- Fuses and bombs -- Prescott -- Our greatest ally, our fiercest foe -- Heartstrong -- Red Buffalo, Black Dragon -- Crazy woman -- the bigger blowup -- The crowded forest -- Mansions in the slums -- The blackline -- Slop-over -- Off to the races -- Red zones -- Turning up the heat -- Playing with fire -- Nuclear frying pan -- The vanishing forest -- The fire-industrial complex -- High park -- Firebugs -- Forest jihad -- Extended attack -- Mountain shadows -- Firestorm -- Seeing red -- Never winter -- Black forest -- Trickle down -- Backfire -- Frontier days -- Defusing the time bomb -- The Doce -- Where the desert breeze meets the mountain air -- The perfect firestorm -- Trigger points -- Nineteen -- Blowback.
Summary
A journalist and forest-fire expert shares his experiences in some of the world's most dangerous and remote regions to explore the rising phenomenon of large-scale fires, the damage they cause, and how they are being battled by elite firefighters.
Subjects
Fire -- History
Wildfires
Wildfire fighters
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2019.050
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