By Stephen Pyne / On July 10th, 2008

". . .the Gap Fire has scorched more than 10,000 acres of land, stretching its flaming wings to the south, east, and west, seriously threatening hundreds of houses, and forcing thousands of Goleta and countless mountain community residents out of their homes. . ." — The Santa Barbara Independent, July 10, 2008 Images of the Goleta, Calif. wildfire courtesy of Severn Williams.
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Stephen Pyne

Stephen Pyne is one of the country's (and the world's) foremost writers on fire. He's written numerous books on particular regions of fire in the United States and one on fire in Australia. A firefighter himself in the Grand Canyon region for years, and a former MacArthur Foundation fellow, he's now a professor of history at Arizona State University.