Awesome article. If anyone wants to learn more about wildfire firefighting from the boots-on-the-ground perspective, I can warmly recommend Matthew Desmond's On

Awesome article. If anyone wants to learn more about wildfire firefighting from the boots-on-the-ground perspective, I can warmly recommend Matthew Desmond's On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters. It taught me a lot that surprised me and is also mentioned in TFA, such as - The main weapon against wildfires is dirt, not water. Wildfires burn so vigorously that trying to extingush with water is like pissing into a bonfire. - Water is used to cool down firefighters, though. It is also used in places the fire hasn't yet reached to slow down its progress. - Firefighters don't say "vegetation" or "trees" or "moss", they say "fuel". - Controlled burns are an effective thing even though it meets political resistance. - Firelines are like dirt roads except completely bare of fuel. - Crown fires are terrifying. - Looking for smoldering underground after a wildfire is important and extremely labour intensive. - Fires travel faster downwind and uphill. - The PPE a wildland firefighter carries may give them a few more minutes of oxygen if they end up surrounded by fire but it won't save their lives in most situations.