TY - BOOK AU - Vaillant,John TI - Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World: True Story from a Hotter World SN - 9781524732851 AV - SD421.34.N67 V35 2023 PY - 0000///June 062023/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Forest fires KW - North America KW - History KW - Wildfires KW - Climatic changes KW - Environmental aspects KW - fast KW - tlcgt N1 - A Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf; new book 2024 spring; Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-401) and index; Origin stories -- Fire weather -- Reckoning N2 - "In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires-and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes"-- ER -