Into the Inferno

A Photographer’s Journey through California’s Megafires and Fallout

De: Stuart Palley

Narrado por: Stuart Palley

In the tradition of Young Men and Fire and Fire on the Mountain, Stuart Palley’s memoir Into the Inferno documents eight years of devastating wildfire in California, showing how fire can transform a landscape as well as a soul…

For nearly a decade, Palley has been on the frontline of fire. He has witnessed homeowners on the worst day of their lives. He’s seen puddles of aluminum where cars were once parked. He’s watched as 150-foot walls of flame cascaded down mountainsides and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. And he’s captured, time and again, the tireless commitment of firefighters as they work to save lives and homes, in terrain where fire always seems to have the upper hand.

In this memoir, Palley recalls how he went from learning to be safe on the fireline to a fire-savvy documentarian of wildfire and climate change. He covers some of California’s largest, most destructive, and deadliest fires between 2012 and 2020, lugging his gear from the Wine Country Fire Siege to the Thomas Fire and ultimately to the Woolsey Fire in Malibu. And he shows how, in a relatively short span of time, fire season in California has grown into a perpetual crisis, requiring billions of dollars and thousands of firefighters each year.

Ultimately, the experiences, the voices, the science shared in the memoir form an urgent call for climate action. Into the Inferno stands alongside Palley’s photography to show just what kind of environmental tragedy we can expect if we do nothing.

©2022 Stuart Palley (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

awesome story

loved it! couldn't wait to listen to it. love the different perspective of the fire world.

Great Prospective

Mr. Palley gave great first hand accounting of what a wildland firefighter goes through. Each chapter was very insightful. Thank you for being respectful to the lives lost, their families and to what the mind-set is for each USFS personnel may go through. Well done.

100%not worth the time

I tried to like it
Author's tone is detached & at times almost juvenile. His writing style & pace are strange, ending paragraphs of explanation with a random "but the view was nice." This makes his concerns & any emotional moments seem forced and disingenuous.
This book is really about what photographers working fires go through (part how to) & his experience with obligatory explanations... but honestly there are FAR better. I couldn't even get halfway through. Especially with his odd tones/pacing, mispronounced words & weird terms like "making pictures"