Oakland firestorm of 1991
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Oakland firestorm of 1991
As fire ecologist Richard Minnich has said, "You can send an arsonist to Death Valley and he'll never be arrested."
Mike Davis • Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast Mike Davis : LA IMC
Residents John Comarnisky and John Lokitis, Jr., were evicted in May and July 2009, respectively.
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
while floods generally follow rivers, and hurricanes follow weather patterns in specific parts of the ocean, fire can occur anywhere there’s fuel, and fire’s menu is astonishingly broad, including virtually everything under the sun save dirt, rock, metal, and water. Furthermore, the paths fire takes are determined almost exclusively by the wind, wh
... See moreJohn Vaillant • Fire Weather
“The Case for Letting Malibu Burn,” a chapter from Ecology of Fear, Davis argued that taxpayers shouldn’t keep forking out to rebuild a wealthy district that predictably burned to the ground every couple of decades. Davis
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
one. Most of the victims in the city were gay men, of course. Kevin, who is gay, was active in the movement to