Sometimes culture and fire collude, sometimes they clash, and sometimes they just collide. When celebrities are involved, an episode can become a curious cipher on American fire, and when those celebrities are Johnny Cash and California condors, the event can transcend the quirky into the just plain bizarre. Of course it happened in Southern Read More
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Words on fire
August 17, 2017
Words, texts, language - these are normally considered the stuff of the humanities. But words, good, bad, and ugly, saturate fire management. They have consequences. We ought to understand them better
Words matter. They matter in themselves, because their use reflects choice and imparts information. They matter because they contain analogies Read More
Words matter. They matter in themselves, because their use reflects choice and imparts information. They matter because they contain analogies Read More