Cuz by Danielle Allen

Author:Danielle Allen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liveright

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THE BIGGEST WILDFIRE IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY

All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl, but this has always been my way. As June heated up into July, and summer brought the threat of wildfire, I simply kept pushing Michael onward with his college courses. I cheered him on with his firefighting. Work and its rewards were what I could see then.

Now, I can see more. I believe that this year, 2003, was the best year of Michael’s life. It was the year in which he learned how to drive. It was the year he wrote extraordinary things. It was also the year that he found love.

And it was the year he fought an inferno, the biggest wildfire in California history.

The California Fire Siege of 2003 burned some 800,000 acres. The largest single fire within it, the Cedar Fire, was and still is the biggest fire in California history, a blowup, shooting two hundred feet of flame in the sky. At one point, 80,000 acres incinerated in ten hours. Over two acres per second went up, in a raging roar like that of a fleet of freight trains, shattering fields of crackling bones. Twenty-two people, including a firefighter, were burned or smoked to death.

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