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3 days agoWhy this Berkeley poet is training to fight wildfires
Rachel Richardson's Smother explores wildfires, grief, motherhood, and resilience, drawing on personal loss and her training as a wildfire firefighter.
Embers launched by the Garnet Fire were smoldering Tuesday in the high branches of several trees in a cherished grove of iconic giant sequoia trees in the Sierra Nevada, and a team of firefighting smoke jumpers was on the way to try to put them out. Fire officials believed the tree-canopy fires were the last remaining threat to McKinley Grove, after firefighters clearing underbrush and debris, and even deploying sprinklers succeeded in keeping flames that entered the grove from inflicting significant damage.