wildfire
There has to be a moment. Imagine the fire nearly out. Your smokejumper or hotshot or engine crew is nearby, each of you working the still burning stumps, the residue on the ground that might still catch a bit of wind and grow again toward fire.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
This makes the fire the fifth largest in California since we started recording fire sizes in the 1930s.
While Western forests burn through late summer, it occurred to me as a former Senior National Wildfire Correspondent that it might be helpful to offer fellow television reporters advice and instruction on how to cover wildland fire.