Book Beginnings - Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
For Rose City Reader's Book Beginnings on Fridays "where participants share the opening sentence (or two) from the book they are reading."
This book was recommended by Byron Borger of Hearts & Minds Books in Pennsylvania in one of his recent newsletters. I checked out my copy from the local library.
Book Beginning of Fire Weather:
On a hot afternoon in May 2016, five miles outside the young petrocity of Fort McMurray, Alberta, a small wildfire flickered and ventilated, rapidly expanding its territory through a mixed forest that hadn't seen fire in decades.