Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures and were destroyed. Author Brian Fies's firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest, unflinching depiction of his personal experiences, including losing his house and every possession he and his wife had that didn't fit into the back of their car. In the days that followed, as the fires continued to burn through the area, Brian hastily pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online-it immediately went viral. He is now expanding his original webcomic to include environmental insight and the fire stories of his neighbors and others in his community. A Fire Story is an honest account of the wildfires that left homes destroyed, families broken, and a community determined to rebuild.
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• Vers une forêt industrielle
• Balade dans un désert
• Un capital comme un autre
• Le douglas, roi des forêts
• Massacre à l'abatteuse
• Une concentration du pouvoir
• La forêt toxique
• Sous un nuage de glyphosate
• La biodiversité malmenée
• Une fuite en avant technicienne
• Une économie à l'agonie
• Le démantèlement des petites scieries
• Tout miser sur le volume
• Le supermarché des Chinois
• La fin des bûcherons
• La misère de l'entrepreneuriat
• Une espérance de vie de 62 ans
• "On mettra dix Roumains à la place"
• Au fond des bois... la détresse
• "Nous sommes devenus des commerciaux"
• Une privatisation rampante
• "Un management par la terreur"
• La transition énergétique dévoyée
• Le cheval de Troie de l'industrie
• Le redéploiement du capitalisme
• Légitimer la surexploitation des forêts
• Labelliser un parking à la place d'une forêt
• Un désastre écologique
• Du bois importé du Canada
• Le mythe du bilan carbone neutre
• Total et Areva à la manoeuvre
• Small is beautiful
• La lutte, seule énergie renouvelable ?
• Des forêts pellets
• Vers un "biomassegate"
• La forêt comme champ de bataille
• Un front contre les bétonneurs
• Résister à la prédation du vivant
• Un grain de sable dans la machine
• Le visage du capitalisme
• La mascarade de l'écodéforestation
• Des résistances paysannes
• La privatisation des forêts
• Le retour des paysans forestiers
• Une nouvelle culture de la forêt
• Décoloniser l'imaginaire
• L'éloge de l'irrégularité
• Pour une écologie sociale
• Les forêts deviennent une industrie !

"Parée du discours trompeur de l'énergie verte et des vertus de la biomasse, une entreprise massive et silencieuse de transformation de la sylve en matière première se déploie en France. Nous pensons la forêt comme le refuge de la liberté, nous la parcourons pour respirer le parfum de la nature, nous nous y réfugions des trépidations urbaines. Mais les abatteuses, les voies forestières démesurées, les centrales à biomasse sont en train de l'avaler, de la quadriller, de la standardiser. Cette dramatique industrialisation de la forêt, on ne l'avait pas encore racontée. Pendant des mois, des Landes au Morvan, de l'Auvergne aux Vosges, Gaspard d'Allens a couru les bois pour décrire et raconter le désastre en cours. Car la forêt subit maintenant la logique productiviste qui a ravagé l'agriculture, détruisant les emplois, dispersant les produits chimiques, gaspillant l'énergie, réduisant la biodiversité. Mais il est encore possible d'inverser le cours de la destruction. Des bûcherons réinventent leur métier, des forestiers promeuvent un usage doux de la forêt, des zad luttent contre les machines. L'espoir est là, l'alternative est vivante, les humains et les arbres peuvent se réconcilier."--Page 4 of cover.

Every year people watch in shock as homes are destroyed and communities devastated by natural disasters. As the media arrives, the information that is reported is mainly statistical. The horror of living through and recovering from the experience is rarely told because almost no one has the emotional strength to speak out while the smoke is still in the air or the floodwaters are still receding. The stories of a disaster's most important effects which unfold slowly and invisibly for months and sometimes years are never told. That is, until now.Hail of Fire: A Man and His Family Face Natural Disaster is an intimate account of the third worst wildfire in modern U.S. history, and the most destructive in the history of Texas. It is a memoir about what happened to Randy Fritz, an artist turned turned public policy leader, and his family during and after, combining a searing account of the fire as it grew to apocalyptic strength with universal themes of loss, grief, and the rebuilding of one's life after a calamitous event.The wildfire itself was traumatic to those who witnessed it and suffered its immediate aftermath. But the most significant impact came in the months and years following, as families grieved, struggled to adapt to a their new world, and accepted the destruction of an iconic forest of internationally acclaimed natural beauty the Lost Pines. Neighbors once close worried about or could not find one another, while others discovered new friendships that transcended the boundaries of race, class, and family lineage.Fritz, a man who previously held the highest elective office in his community, struggled as his wife, Holly, and their youngest daughter, Miranda, tried to make sense of their losses. He never imagined the impact this disaster would have on them individually and as a family, as well as the emotional toll he would pay and the journey to make sense of it all.While natural disasters seem increasingly common, deeply personal and redemptive accounts of them are less so. Hail of Fire is an unflinching story of how a man and his tight-knit family found grace after a wildfire took everything. Fritz's hard-won insights provide inspiration to anyone with a quest to figure out what truly matters, particularly those who have undergone an unexpected and life-changing event and those who love and care for them.
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Every year people watch in shock as homes are destroyed and communities devastated by natural disasters. As the media arrives, the information that is reported is mainly statistical. The horror of living through and recovering from the experience is rarely told because almost no one has the emotional strength to speak out while the smoke is still in the air or the floodwaters are still receding. The stories of a disaster's most important effects--which unfold invisibly for months and sometimes years--are never told. That is, until now. Hail of Fire: A Man and His Family Face Natural Disaster is an intimate account of the third worst wildfire in modern U.S. history, and the most destructive in the history of Texas. It is a memoir about what happened to Randy Fritz, an artist turned politician turned public policy leader, and his family during and after, combining a searing account of the fire as it grew to apocalyptic strength with universal themes of loss, grief, and the rebuilding of one's life after a calamitous event. The wildfire itself was traumatic to those who witnessed it and suffered its immediate aftermath. But the most significant impact came in the months and years that followed.
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• Prologue
• Tinderbox. The perfect profession ; Training day ; Marsh's crew ; First fire ; Justifiable risk
• The devouring fire. The dynamite and the wick ; To the east ; Bad memories ; Lessons learned ; In country not seen in daylight ; Tested ; We're still here ; Steed's crew
• One foot in the black. New starts ; Hometown pride ; Fire on the mountain ; Initial attack ; Eyes in the green ; Wind shift ; Evacuate immediately ; The space between ; Crossing the line ; After
• Epilogue.

This definitive account of the Yarnell Hill Fire is a heartbreaking tale of courage, difficult decisions, and ultimate sacrifice. On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than eight thousand acres in northern Arizona. Twenty elite firefighters--the Granite Mountain Hotshots--walked together into the blaze, tools in their hands and fire shelters on their hips. Only one of them walked out. Journalist-firefighter Dickman brings to the story a professional firefighter's understanding of how wildfires ignite, how they spread, and how they are fought. He understands hotshots and their culture: the pain and glory of a rough and vital job, the brotherly bonds born of dangerous work. Drawing on dozens of interviews with officials, families of the fallen, and the lone survivor, he describes in vivid detail what it's like to stand inside a raging fire--and shows how the increased population and decreased water supply of the American West guarantee that many more young men will step into harm's way in the coming years.--From publisher description.

• Cover; Title; Copyright; SMOKE & FIRE 7 February 2009; ASH February 2009
• February 2010; FORGETTING March 2010 -; Sources & further reading; Acknowledgments.

In 2009, as the Black Saturday fires swept Victoria, writer and historian Robert Kenny defended his home in Redesdale. His fire plan was sound and he was prepared. But the reality of the fire was more ferocious and more unpredictable than he could have imagined. By the end of the day, his house and the life contained within were gone. The years that followed were marked by grieving, recovering and eventually rebuilding - a process starkly framed by the choice between remembering and forgetting. The resulting book is a riveting story of personal loss, woven with intellectual and historical investigations of fire in the Australian landscape, mythologies of fire, and ideas of loss, home and community. This is stimulating writing, edged with beauty, grief and hope.