Distinguished Speaker Series: Jordan Thomas When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World Saturday, February 7 at 3pm Register for this online event here.
In “When It All Burns,” Jordan Thomas brings an anthropologist’s eye to the life-or-death struggle with fire. As viewed in shaky social media posts, the new megafires that plague the Western United States are monstrous in their magnitude: Walls of orange flame melt homes and turn dense green woods into spent matchsticks beneath explosive black mushroom clouds. But in “When It All Burns,” Jordan Thomas’s account of a season fighting fires with the so-called “Los Padres Hotshots” — a U.S. Forest Service firefighting unit that he describes as one of “the special forces of wildland firefighters” — conflagration is terrifyingly intimate. New York Times Review by Robert Sullivan
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