August, 2010
Stories from August, 2010
1 August 2010
Russia: Towns and Villages on Fire

Hundreds of forest and peat fires are raging across central Russia. The organization of the firefighting effort has been inadequate in many cases, and local residents often choose to self-mobilize and defend nearby towns and villages with whatever means they happen to have at their disposal.































I think the reason it stuck with me is that I was fired from my first real job--teaching at a...