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. . . Jerry William, the former head firefighter for the U.S Forest Service, told a conference not long ago that “my first experience with a really unimaginable fire was in Northern California late in August 1987,” when a thousand blazes broke out simultaneously. “I remember saying, “Jesus, we will never see anything like that again.’ And the next year we saw Yellowstone.” Now, he said, “it seems like every year we see a ‘worst’ one. And the next year we can see a worse one yet. They’re unbounded.” As Michael Kodas reports in his recent book ‘Megafire’, fire season is on average seventy-eight days longer across the American West than it was in 1970, and in some parts, it essentially never ends; since 2000, more than a dozen U.S states have reported the largest wild fires in their recorded histories….. Page 25

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