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Joe Magoney is a California-certified burn boss. He starts fires for a living. Out of curiosity, he attends one meeting of his town's Fire Safe Council and continues his presence for twenty-four months.
What he finds there is not inaction. Everyone is working. There are flyers, programs, meetings, calculations measuring meeting effectiveness, and forty-one minute debates about font choices for the flyers. But the slope above town has been accumulating fuel since 1987, and Joe knows exactly what that means. The room does not.
This is a book about understanding fire danger when institutions move slowly and people don't want to hear about it, and mitigating anyway.
When the fire comes, and in the Sierra Nevada foothills, it always does, some houses will survive. Not because of strategic plans and font choices. Because one man refused to walk away.
Joe Magoney is a California-certified burn boss. He starts fires for a living. Out of curiosity, he attends one meeting of his town's Fire Safe Council and continues his presence for twenty-four months.
What he finds there is not inaction. Everyone is working. There are flyers, programs, meetings, calculations measuring meeting effectiveness, and forty-one minute debates about font choices for the flyers. But the slope above town has been accumulating fuel since 1987, and Joe knows exactly what that means. The room does not.
This is a book about understanding fire danger when institutions move slowly and people don't want to hear about it, and mitigating anyway.
When the fire comes, and in the Sierra Nevada foothills, it always does, some houses will survive. Not because of strategic plans and font choices. Because one man refused to walk away.