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Fires and fire prevention

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…

Blue Sky Days

by Tomas van Houtryve,

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

London Apt Fire, 2007

Art by Richard Storms,

Oil painting (detail)

Art by Bo Bartlett,

Evacuated house and smoke from three million gallons of gasoline burning in a Shell Oil fuel tank struck by lightning, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1996

by Virginia Beahan, Laura McPhee,

The day the fire came

by Virginia Bell Dabney,

Only cows were killed

by Floyd C. Stuart,

Stopped too soon

by Harper’s Staff,

A sharp distinction

by Harper’s Staff,

First aid

by Harper’s Staff,

A last resort

by Harper’s Staff,

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