Through the Smoke:
Insights from a wildfire veteran
Precedented: Our New Normal in Wildfire Seasons
Unprecedented.
That’s the word you’ll hear every fire season now. It gets tossed around so often—by headlines, politicians, and press releases—that when I see it, all I can think is how deeply it misses the point. Every year, they say the fires are worse than ever. But to wildland firefighters, it’s all starting to feel very precedented.