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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

byJohn Vaillant

John Vaillant reconstructs the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire, which forced the evacuation of a Canadian oil city and destroyed entire neighborhoods. Firefighters, residents, scientists, and officials reveal how extreme heat, dry forests, petroleum development, and urban design combined in a catastrophe suited to a warming world. The narrative moves from individual survival to the ancient chemistry of combustion and humanity's deep dependence on burning fossil carbon. Vaillant presents the blaze as both gripping disaster and warning: fire weather is expanding, and societies built for an older climate face increasingly unfamiliar danger.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781524732851