Wildfires are not a seasonal problem. The trauma is year-round.
is spreading uncontrolled adjacent to one of the most densely populated areas of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
With fire coverage, I had noticed that I kept seeing the same story being told over and over and over. Stories of people sifting through the ash for their wedding rings or their China or whatever there is to be found. And then that’s all you really said about the victims. When I saw Paradise, the place really struck me, and in talking to the people, I just thought there’s something really special about this community and I wanted to understand it better.
It’s got to be weird for you right now with a book out about this at the same time that fires in California are burning again. That’s a big reason why I wanted to write the book, because I think that when you’re looking at acres burned, or number of homes destroyed, or number of people who died, it can feel very abstract, like those fires get flattened to just a statistic. It shouldn’t get to a point where it’s just totally normalized and we’re just used to another place burning down every summer.
I completely agree with you about the importance of holding PG&E accountable for this, and your book is very good at pointing out their negligence and attempts to dodge responsibility. But there is another part of me that says, “Look, it’s the hot climate that is cooking California. Theseare a result of the heat and drought that is drying out the forests and turning the whole state into a tinderbox.
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