As I approached a crew of firefighters on the edge of smoldering redwoods, just west of Central California’s Big Sur River, it struck me that their uniforms were orange—not the yellow you usually see on firefighters. It was just 12 hours after the Pfeiffer Fire broke out; it started on Dec. 16 and burned around […]
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