THE VERY AIR WAS AFIRE

摘要

Local journalists unearthed Forest Service records that seem to suggest that communication problems may have been responsible for the two deaths; that the agency may not have used all available tools and technologies to snuff out the flames in its first days; and burned-out residents pressed their political representatives to launch a congressional investigation. By contrast, he buries the elite-" the bankers and business owners, insurance brokers and builders, families who had their names on the sides of buildings, and people who made a fortune draining the mountainsides of their precious metals" - who fled in the face of danger.