Fire Season
Fire Season by Miles Wilson, published by Stephen F. Austin University Press on June 24, 2014, is a 200-page exploration of a US Forest Service firefighting crew in Southern California during the mid-1960s. This edition sheds light on the often-overlooked role of the Forest Service in combating forest fires, moving beyond common perceptions of smokejumpers and lookouts to reveal the realities faced by seasonal firefighters who serve as the frontline defense against increasingly severe wildfires.
Readers will find a detailed portrayal of an elite hotshot crew, specially trained to tackle the explosive fires characteristic of California’s chaparral. Fire Season delves into the physical, emotional, and social dynamics of these firefighters, illustrating the complex relationship between humans and the natural environment. Through its focus on this unique aspect of American literature, the book provides insight into the historical and ecological significance of firefighting in the West.
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Fire Season is set on a US Forest Service firefighting crew stationed in Southern California and working throughout the West in the mid-1960’s. A significant presence in the West, the US Forest Service is little treated in fiction. Many readers have no exposure to the role of the Forest Service in firefighting beyond some gauzy notion of smokejumpers, lookouts, and Smokey the Bear. Yet since WW II, tens of thousands of seasonal firefighters have been the primary line of defense against forest fires of increasing ecological, economic, and human cost. Fire Season focuses on the paradigm for fire crews, an elite hotshot crew specially trained for explosive California chaparral fires. In its fidelity to the physical, emotional, and social world of one of these crews, Fire Season offers an account of the fiery intersection of the human and the natural world―an ongoing encounter that has decisively shaped the natural history―and, therefore, the human history―of the West.
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