Lizzie Johnson
Autor/a de Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an… de Lizzie Johnson
This one was hard to read. It’s not listed as a true crime novel but it is.
1. Read this book.
2. Watch one of the documentaries to drive home what the citizens lived through. I recommend Fire in Paradise which is available through PBS, Netflix, and YouTube.
3. Make an emergency evacuation plan with your family.
2. Watch one of the documentaries to drive home what the citizens lived through. I recommend Fire in Paradise which is available through PBS, Netflix, and YouTube.
3. Make an emergency evacuation plan with your family.
With a tragedy so perfectly followed and the lives of so many so compassionately told, this book can be forgiven for a lack of photos. Very, very well written and a compelling picture of the threat of climate change in a time of corporate malfeasance and public disinterest.
This is a disaster movie, in book form - and it's a true story.
On a dry windy November morning in 2018, a poorly-maintained PG&E transmission line sparked a fire that caught in drought-dry grass and burned through forests thick after centuries of forest mismanagement; an accident of geography that put the town of Paradise right in the fire's path.
This book lays out all of the factors that helped turn the fire into a cataclysm, and tells the stories of people trying to escape the flames. Most of the people in the town that morning escaped and survived, but 85 didn't. We see the firefighters trying to respond to the fire, and the town government trying to respond to the fire bigger than anything they can imagine. It's a gripping page-turner.
On the day I bought this book, the sky was pale and the sun was a pallid yellow from yet another wildfire burning hundreds of miles away in the Sierra foothills in California, a sobering reminder that we're still in the opening scenes of the big disaster movie unfolding in real time around us.… (més)
On a dry windy November morning in 2018, a poorly-maintained PG&E transmission line sparked a fire that caught in drought-dry grass and burned through forests thick after centuries of forest mismanagement; an accident of geography that put the town of Paradise right in the fire's path.
This book lays out all of the factors that helped turn the fire into a cataclysm, and tells the stories of people trying to escape the flames. Most of the people in the town that morning escaped and survived, but 85 didn't. We see the firefighters trying to respond to the fire, and the town government trying to respond to the fire bigger than anything they can imagine. It's a gripping page-turner.
On the day I bought this book, the sky was pale and the sun was a pallid yellow from yet another wildfire burning hundreds of miles away in the Sierra foothills in California, a sobering reminder that we're still in the opening scenes of the big disaster movie unfolding in real time around us.… (més)
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- 1
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- 118
- Popularitat
- #167,490
- Valoració
- 4.5
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- 6
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- 5