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Vaillant repeatedly frames the fire in explosive or biblical terms and the subsequent effort to save Fort McMurray as a war, with firefighters pitted against the flames. McGrath's troubling story doesn't end there, and it alone might have been enough to anchor the narrative - as might the experiences of the firefighters who courageously fought the blaze when, as Vaillant beautifully writes, "even the ravens had fled." REVIEWS Edited by Amy Brady NONFICTION In May 2016 a wildfire started near Fort McMurray, the boomtown built around the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. [Extracted from the article]