Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze By Jesse Winter

Award-winning journalist Jesse Winter takes us on a dangerous and often heroic journey to the frontlines of three Canadian wildfires, introducing readers to firefighters, volunteers and others who are facing the country's most devastating infernos

In Wild Fire, Jesse Winter takes readers on a dramatic and riveting journey to the frontlines of Canada's most disastrous wildfires. Weaving together incredible stories of everyday courage, danger and devastation, Winter offers a unique view into our current peril-sharing invaluable insight from those who've faced down Canada's hungriest infernos. In the roadside forests of British Columbia, he encounters a team of firefighters who were forced to seek haven in their truck as flames encircled them. In Jasper, he meets the tireless volunteer who climbed onto a burning roof to save the town's hospital. And, in the far North, he meets the residents who fled their homes as the fires blazed closer and closer. At each site, Winter asks what we're getting right, and also examines what we're getting very, very wrong. From there, he makes the compelling case that if Canada wants to survive its inevitably hot future it needs to take the hard-won lessons of such local communities to heart. The end result is an account that feels immediate and intimate, urgent and hopeful.