The Unfightable Fire
Briefly

"In an ember storm, every opening in a house is a portal to hell. A vent without a screen, a crack in the siding, a missing roof tile—each is an opportunity for a spark to smolder."
"Now more people live at the flammable edges of wildlands, making places that are primed to burn into de facto suburbs… the region is at risk for urban fire once again."
"For generations, American cities would burn in era-defining conflagrations… then came fire-prevention building codes, which made large city burns a memory of a more naive time."
Read at The Atlantic
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