From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder

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  This is the Guardian.

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  The Guardian Archive.

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  Long read.

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  Hi, my name is Daniel Immervar.

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  I'm a professor of history at Northwestern University

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  and the author of A Deranged How Fires across the World have Grown Weirder,

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  published in 2022.

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  There were two things that got me interested in this.

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  One is that I had a friend whose home burned down.

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  He was fine, but as he described it in really vivid detail, I thought, you know,

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

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

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  And then I'd also, years before, had lived in California.

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  And at that time,

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  the wildfires in California were growing more intense

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  and people were starting to deal with smoke in their homes

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  and having days when they couldn't easily go outside.

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  And I started to feel that fire, which had been a constant companion of humanity for, you know,

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  our entire species history,

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

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