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13. If you haven't read "Fire Weather" by John Vailliant (featured in the video) you should . . .

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 10:30 PM

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Brilliant reporting and absolutely chilling. And it's about the Fort McMurray fire, which was 9 years ago, and took out most of a city of 100,000 people, along with 1.5 million acres of boreal forest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Fort_McMurray_wildfire

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