Jordan Thomas's "When It All Burns" provides a gripping first-person account of his experiences with the Los Padres Hotshots, a highly skilled firefighting crew. The narrative interweaves thrilling firefighting action with in-depth explorations of fire ecology, economic impacts, and Indigenous cultural practices. Despite the challenges presented by climate change, the book emphasizes the interconnectedness of these themes. The urgency of the wildfires is underscored by recent events in Los Angeles, drawing attention to the ecological and human costs of such disasters, making Thomas's work resonate as a prophetic warning for the future.
In the past two decades, wildfires have been doing things not even computer models can predict, environmental events that have scientists racking their brains for appropriately Dystopian technology: firenados, gigafires, megafires.
Thomas alternates sequences of harrowing action and macho team-building with deep dives into the ecology, science, economics and, most important, Indigenous cultural practices related to fire.
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