Fire fighters

Fire fighters

The Matter of War

by Nicole Tung,

Photographs from Ukraine

Combustion Engines

by Richard Manning,

On any given day last summer, the smoke-choked skies over Missoula, Montana, swarmed with an average of twenty-eight helicopters and eighteen fixed-wing craft, a blitz waged against Lolo Peak, Rice…

Strike Team

by Peter M. Leschak,

The first thing we did was build a bridge over Slough Creek, a pristine trout stream in the northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park. I felt strange—digging and hammering in…

Heroes

From complaints submitted by four San Diego firemen who were ordered to drive a fire truck in a July 21 gay-pride parade. While I was sitting there waiting for the…