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Fire weather : the making of a beast

Fire weather : the making of a beast

Book 2024

"A stunning, panoramic exploration of the symbiotic relationship between humans and combustion and why we are entering a new century of fire. In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta -- the seat of the Canadian oil industry, from which the U.S. derives almost half its oil imports -- burned to the ground. The unprecedented disaster forced 88,000 people from their homes and showed us what the fires of the future look like: increasingly des...