In an excerpt from their new book, two Guardian journalists recount how a fierce blaze broke out on a fall morning in 2018. It became the most lethal US wildfire in 100 years
- Wildfires. Pandemics. The Anthropocene is biting back, the authors write in an op-ed
Four miles east of Paradise, California as the crow flies, fire chief Matt McKenzie awoke in confusion at 5am on Thursday, 8 November 2018. It sounded like rain hitting the metal roof of the fire station, but there was none in the forecast.
It took him a moment to realize that it was pine needles being flung by a strange wind – not the usual intermittent gusts he was accustomed to hearing swoosh down the canyon, but a sustained, jet-engine roar. He got up and went to the station’s small kitchen, where he put the coffee on and started dicing potatoes and onions for his crew’s breakfast.
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