Burning Out: The Human Cost of America's Wildfire Crisis The inferno raging across the American West has long been a harbinger of climate change.
This year's wildfire season, however, also highlights a more insidious crisis: the federal government's failure to protect its own firefighters.
As flames engulf vast swaths of public land, those tasked with battling them are being pushed to exhaustion – and even their lives. The statistics on wildfires are alarming.