Episode 1: Suppressed

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Lily Clarke arrived at the August Complex Fire, it was a fire of sensational size. The blaze eventually burned more than 1 million acres, becoming the largest recorded wildfire in California history. Across the country in 2020, flames charred an area size nearly 5 times the size of Yellowstone National Park — the largest swathe of land burned since reliable records began. Wildfires across the country are getting bigger, hotter, and more devastating. But what's all this fire really mean — for the west, for firefighters, and for everyday folks? And what's it</span> <em style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> really</em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">like to fight fire on the ground?</span></p> <div align="left"> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lily Clarke fights wildfire for the US Forest Service and received her Master of Science in Systems Ecology from the University of Montana.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Maclean</span> is the author of 5 books about wildfire.</li> </ul> </div>