M. R. O’connor
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The Art of Leaping Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires (opens the original)
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During summer in parts of Alaska, the sun shines for more than two months straight. The endless days are punctuated by the appearance of gigantic thunderheads that, many afternoons, seem to boil up into the sky. They often bring torrents of rain and bolts of lightning that ignite fires. Fort Wainwright, a U.S. Army facility in Fairbanks, Alaska, houses about two hundred federal wildland firefighters. Roughly seventy-five of them, stationed at a group of unassuming buildings near an airstrip, are
Why Is Europe Burning? (opens the original)
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On July 15th, a wildfire broke out near the small town of Orés, Spain, in the northern province of Zaragoza. Propelled by strong winds and low humidity, the flames quickly spread over foothills and through canyons. By the next day, as the fire ballooned to more than eleven thousand acres, five towns in its path had to be evacuated. For José Luis Duce Aragüés, a wildland firefighter whose family is from Zaragoza, news of the fire felt personal. As a teen-ager, he’d spent summers exploring the sam
Why Is Europe Burning? (opens the original)
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“We put all these ingredients in a cocktail shaker, and the result is massive fires that far exceed the extinguishing capacity of firefighting teams,” a Spanish firefighter said.
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