![]() ![]() ![]() It’s one of many remarkable scenes depicted in Fire Weather, which uses the devastating Fort McMurray wildfire as a jumping-off point to explore how we got to this point. ![]() But they were within 10 or 20 degrees of going over the edge.” So we’ll never know, and we don’t want to know, how close they came. You realize the boundary, this distinction between this animal who is outside in the fire and on fire the only thing keeping Paul Ayearst and his wife and his daughter from being on fire themselves is the fact they are inside these vehicles that are actually pretty flammable. I didn’t think to ask ‘Did you get run into by any burning animals?’ But Paul, giving me a thorough account of what he went through, describes it and it adds this whole other dimension. “So you hope people are going to tell you. “This is my fear as a journalist, you go into a place and you don’t know the questions to ask,” says Vaillant, who first visited Fort McMurray to research his book in the fall of 2021. When Vaillant met up with him months later, he showed the journalist and renowned author a photo of the flaming trees and fireballs. The deer is literally on fire, glowing from the embers in its fur as it bolts through the stalled traffic and disappears into the smoke.Īyearst and his family were among the last civilians out of Beacon Hill. Suddenly, from out of the flames, a panicking deer smashes into the passenger-side door of Ayearst’s truck. Every tree in sight is on fire, “boulder-sized” fireballs are rolling over the road, embers blister the paint of his truck and the glass of the windows are too hot to touch. ![]()
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