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Hi, my name is Daniel Imervar. I'm a professor of history at Northwestern University

and the author of A Darranged Pyruscape, How Fires Across the World Have Grown Weirder,

published in 2022. There were two things that got me interested in this. One is that I had a

friend whose homeburned down. He was fine, but as he described it in really vivid detail, I thought,

you know, this is the kind of experience that people used to have all the time, and they rarely have now.

You know, I'd never seen a house on fire.

And then I'd also, years before, had lived in California, and at that time, the wildfires

in California were growing more intense, and people were starting to deal with smoke and their

homes and having days

when they couldn't easily go outside. And I started to feel that fire, which had been a

constant companion of humanity for our entire species history, was starting to come back and

come back in ways that are discomforting and possibly really serious.

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