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US Wildfires

September 8, 2020

The west coast of the United States is being hammered by wildfires. Stephen Pyne has been called 'the world's leading authority on the history of fire'. Pyne tells Brent Goff on The Day that humans have put whole system on a 'performance enhancer' and the wildfires are faster, worse and more damaging than ever before.

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The west coast of the United States is being hammered by wildfires. Stephen Pyne has been called 'the world's leading authority on the history of fire'. Pyne tells Brent Goff on The Day that humans have put whole system on a 'performance enhancer' and the wildfires are faster, worse and more damaging than ever before.

US 
California
Wildfires
Stephen Pyne