Fourteen of California’s 20 largest conflagrations on record in the last decade, burning some 5.3 million acres, destroying 11,393 structures, and killing 35 people.

Source: https://grist.org/science/prescribed-burns-land-management-california-forests/

The department also seeks to coordinate with the Fire and Rescue department in bringing the conflagrations under control.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/with-summer-embers-rage-across-the-high-ranges/article66583774.ece

Though it was long ago and there exist no photographs of the Chicago Fire of 1871, it shadows and defines our history, even as we are awash in contemporary conflagrations.

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-fire-documentary-kogan-1001-20230927-ay4ur7lru5cibiuh3hijzk45sy-story.html