The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells The True Story Of California's Epic Cedar Fire,Used

The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells The True Story Of California's Epic Cedar Fire,Used

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The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire is both a poignant memoir and a veteran journalist's narrative nonfiction account of a catastrophic event that crippled postcardperfect San Diego and dominated international headlines in October 2003.Author Sandra Millers Younger's miraculous saga of escape, ruin and renewal unifies a tapestry of experiences woven from more than 100 interviews with firefighters, survivors and the families of those who died.The fire itself, a benchmark in the emergence of today's climatedriven megafires, is the main character in this epic storya rampaging monster, framed within historical context, battled by understaffed, underequipped firefighters, and confronted from the rare perspective of terrified civilians caught in its path.Timing, location and weather conspired against air tankers, fire engines and bulldozers, enabling a lost hunter's signal fire to gather strength in the mountains east of San Diego.Overnight, a swelling wind sent flames galloping toward the Pacific, killing 15 people, 12 of them the author's neighbors; incinerating more than 2,200 homes, including hers; and exploding into the thenbiggest wildfire in California's recorded history.In this revealing narrative, Younger takes readers into the heart of an epic firefight, telling the stories of fire chiefs and air tanker pilots trying to combat a catastrophe bigger than they had ever imagined, and recounting both survivors' and victims' desperate efforts to escape flames moving faster than fire engines could drive.The Fire Outside My Window is a riveting and nuanced tale that captures the intensity of a runaway wildfire, honors those lost to its fury, and celebrates the human spirit's innate capacity to triumph over adversity.

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This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

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