Excellent Nonpartisan Nonfiction: Now that mags like New Yorker and Atlantic have become fanatical fever swamps we can turn to some terrific books: The Fire Outside My Window, Sandra Younger, 2013, Globe Pequot - Many homes. Many lives. Gone. - Started by a panicked lost Sergio Martinez as a signal fire in dry windy chaparral

The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire is both a poignant memoir and a veteran journalist's narrative nonfiction account of the largest known wildfire in California history, a catastrophic event that crippled postcard-perfect San Diego and dominated international headlines in October 2003. ...

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