Consuming Fire Tim Hughes Pdf
Sibyl Piccuillo
After igniting shortly after 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, the fire moved toward several small communities on the Antelope Valley floor west of Lancaster, causing officials to order evacuations. On Wednesday night, it burned rapidly to the northeast, toward Highway 138.
By sunrise Thursday, the blaze had chewed through 10,500 acres and destroyed three structures. The fire was 11,000 acres and 5% contained as of 7 p.m. More than 5,000 buildings remain threatened, according to officials with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The weather late Wednesday and early Thursday brought a welcome reprieve, with cloud cover and even an occasional drizzle in the burn area, but high temperatures in the afternoon continued to pose a challenge for firefighters.
L.A. County Fire Department public information officer Ron Haralson said Thursday afternoon that the fire was moving mostly to the north and northeast and continues to pose a threat to the Lake Hughes and Three Points communities.
More than 1,000 personnel, as well as several helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, have been deployed to the scene, with assistance provided by the L.A. County Fire Department, the Angeles National Forest and numerous fire departments in the area.
"The noise of destruction adds to its satisfaction," Elias Canetti notes in Crowds and Power. "The banging of windows and smashing of glass are the robust sounds of fresh life, the cries of something newborn." In Detroit, they proved to bewith the rattling of gunfirethe sounds of death. Throughout the Detroit riot there wasas in Newarka spectacularly perverse mood of gaiety and light-hearted abandon in the moba "carnival spirit," as a shocked Mayor Cavanagh called it, echoing the words used by New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes after he toured stricken Newark three weeks ago.
Some of the looters were taking a methodical revenge upon the area's white merchants, whose comparatively high prices, often escalated to offset losses by theft and the cost of extra-high insurance premiums, irk the residents of slum neighborhoods. Most of the stores pillaged and destroyed were groceries, supermarkets and furniture stores; of Detroit's 630 liquor stores, 250 were looted. Many drunks careened down Twelfth Street consuming their swag. Negro merchants scrawled "Soul Brother"and in one case, "Sold Brother" on their windows to warn the mobs off. But many of their stores were ravaged nonetheless.
Riots and looting spread through the afternoon over a 10.8-sq.-mi. area of the West Side almost as far north as the Northland Shopping Center. An entire mile of Twelfth Street was a corridor of flame; firemen answering the alarms were pelted with bricks, and at one point they abandoned their hoses in the streets and fled, only to be ordered back to the fire by Cavanagh.
Some 5,000 thieves and arsonists were ravaging the West Side. Williams Drug Store was a charred shell by dusk. More than one grocery collapsed as though made of Lincoln Logs. A paint shop erupted and took the next-door apartment house with it. In many skeletal structures the sole sign of life was a wailing burglar alarm. Lou's Men's Wear expired in a ball of flame. Meantime, a mob of 3,000 took up the torch on the East Side several miles away. The Weather Bureau's tornado watch offered brief hope of rain to damp the fires, but it never came.
Those who walked to weep, those who walked to write.
And I walked, and under my feet words hummed,
and I walked over the dark, over despair, and over silence,
and a demon walked through my heart, and the gun, there was a shot,
and years collapse, and how my brother with blood on his hands,
and how my brother is Cain, and I walked, and there came a fire
consuming the silence. Those who walked to weep,
who walked to weep.
As we pursued the main road, and approached St. Sebastianby its ordinary entrance, we were at first surprised at the slightdegree of damage done to its fortifications by the fire of our batteries.The walls and battlements beside the gateway appearedwholly uninjured, the very embrasures being hardly defaced. Butthe delusion grew gradually more faint as we drew nearer, and hadtotally vanished before we reached the glacis. We found thedraw-bridge fallen down across the ditch, in such a fashion thatthe endeavour to pass it was not without danger. The foldinggates were torn from their hinges, one lying flat upon the ground,and the other leaning against the wall; whilst our own steps, aswe moved along the arched passage, sounded loud and melancholy.
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Heat waves are setting all-time temperature records across the globe, again. Europe suffered its deadliest fire in more than a century, and one of nearly 90 large fires in the U.S. West burned dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of at least 37,000 people near Redding, California. Flood-inducing downpours have pounded the U.S. East this week.
The same jet stream pattern caused the 2003 European heat wave, the 2010 Russian heat wave and fires, the 2011 Texas and Oklahoma drought and the 2016 Canadian wildfires, Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann said, pointing to past studies by him and others. He said in an email that these extremes are "becoming more common because of human-caused climate change and in particular, the amplified warming in the Arctic."
In the United States on Friday, there were 89 active large fires, consuming nearly 900,000 acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. So far this year, fires have burned 4.15 million acres, which is nearly 14 percent higher than average over the past 10 years.
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