دانلود کتاب When It All Burns 2025

In When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World, Jordan Thomas recounts his brutal six‑month season with the elite Los Padres Hotshots, one of America’s most demanding wildland firefighting crews. As a trained anthropologist turned hotshot, he immerses the reader in the physical and emotional intensity of battling California’s megafires—fires so extreme they defy traditional containment methods. With vivid detail, he describes daily life on the fire line, the elite crew culture, and how even heroic efforts often fall short against flames that spread beyond control.

Jordan Thomas also provides a sharp historical and systemic analysis, linking modern megafires to flawed fire suppression policies, settler colonialism, industrial logging, and the eradication of Indigenous fire management practices. He argues that rebuilding ecosystems requires a return to prescribed burns and partnerships with Native communities, all while exposing how political, economic, and climatic forces have shaped the “fire industrial complex”¹.