03141cam a2200337 4500 527818674 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547792125 0547792123 B01I4FPO62 Amazon 684d73a9-02c3-47bc-b233-cad124c6e5a9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2854410 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kodas, Michael. Megafire [Libby eBook] : The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 11MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 11MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>This bestselling author of <i>High Crimes</i> explores what causes forest fires and captures their danger and the heroism of those who fight them.</b></p> <p>In <i>Megafire</i>, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to dangerous and remote wildernesses, as well as to the backyards of people faced with these catastrophes, to look at the heart of this phenomenon and witness firsthand the heroic efforts of the firefighters and scientists racing against time to stop it—or at least to tame these deadly flames.</p>From Colorado to California, China to Canada, head to the frontlines on the ground and in the air, as well as in the laboratories, universities, and federal agencies where this battle rages on. Through this prism of perspectives, Kodas zeroes in on some of the most terrifying environmental disasters in recent years—the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona that took the lives of nineteen elite "hotshot" firefighters, the Waldo Canyon Fire that overwhelmed the city of Colorado Springs—and more in a page-turning narrative that puts a face on the brave people at the heart of this issue. <i>Megafire</i>describes the profound global impact of these fires and will change the way we think about the environment and the precariousness of our world.<br /> <br /> <b>"I don't know any writer better equipped to explain what's gone wrong than Michael Kodas, who shines a light both on the astonishing bravery of the hotshots on the front lines and on the waste and ineptitude of the politicians and bureaucrats who too often fail them, sometimes with fatal consequences."<i>—</i>Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation</i></b>. Nonfiction. Sociology. Politics. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=684d73a9-02c3-47bc-b233-cad124c6e5a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=684d73a9-02c3-47bc-b233-cad124c6e5a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=684d73a9-02c3-47bc-b233-cad124c6e5a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)