‘Terrible proof’: California fire documentary explores human failings behind blazes
published : 3 Aug 2021 at 08:45
LOS ANGELES – Months after Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker began making a documentary about the largest-ever wildfire in California, the blaze lost its crown to an even bigger inferno.
The 2017 Thomas Fire is now only the seventh worst by area destroyed — and is likely to be overtaken soon by the Dixie Fire raging through the state’s northern…