02674cam a2200589 i 4500 1165625760 TxAuBib 20240306120000.0 210719s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021285775 9781324005148 hardcover 1324005149 hardcover TxAuBib rda Gee, Alastair,. Fire in Paradise [BOOK] : an American tragedy / Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020] ©2020. 244 pages : maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244). Paradise. A gold rush town ; Off the grid ; Firebrands -- Hell. Daybreak ; Stay or go ; The cemetery ; The day after -- Ashes and seeds. A city dispersed ; Search and recovery ; A pile of ashes ; The perfect fire. November 8, 2018. Paradise, California, a community of 27,000 souls, was destroyed in a fire that left 86 dead. Gee and Anguiano offer a dramatic narrative the disaster based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents and first responders. They also explore the science of wildfires in a time of dramatic climate change, the role of the power company PG&E in the blaze, and the efforts to raise Paradise from the ruins. -- Adapted from jacket. 20240306. Wildfires California Paradise. Wildfires. Fires Casualties. Natural disasters California. Climatic changes. First responders Anecdotes. Fire extinction Accidents California. History United States State & Local West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY.) Nature Natural Disasters. SOCIAL SCIENCE bisacsh Disasters & Disaster Relief. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING bisacsh Fire Science. Natural disasters. fast First responders. fast Fires fast Casualties. Fire extinction fast Accidents. Climatic changes. fast Wildfires. fast Forest fires. Electrical engineering. sears Fire management. sears Paradise (Calif.) California. fast California fast Paradise. Anecdotes. fast Anguiano, Dani,.