Fascinating, informative, but extremely depressing book on contemporary fires, concentrating on the 2016 Fort McMurray fire in Alberta, but with long sections on the history of the petroleum industry and climate science and discussing other fires in Canada and in California and Australia. The book concludes with some small hopeful signs (e.g., between its peak in 2017 and 2022, the number of US petroleum engineering graduates dropped by 80%) but will the required changes come quickly enough? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554938/fire-weather-by-john-vaillant/