US firefighters are burning out as climate change fans the flames
‘For me, myself, I always wear my shades, so when I get teary-eyed, I try to hide it’
10 November 2019 - 07:36
Geyserville — Firefighter Joe Stewart steered his pickup truck through the redwood trees, pointing out charred remains of homes, barns and hunting cabins amid the blackened tree trunks and ashen soil of the latest wildfire.
With worsening waves of fires ravaging northern California, the loss of just hundreds of homes has come to signal success, he said...
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