‘IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE’: WILDFIRES FORCING FIREFIGHTERS TO MAKE IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES
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As the climate crisis fuels more intense blazes, pushing them to new parts of the world, those tackling them are forced to ration resources and decide which to fight César Alcaraz had only just become a firefighter in… Barely able to breathe and with no more water left in his truck, he and his colleagues fled an inferno ravaging Spain’s Montgó mountain region, wishing their bosses had sent more support.
But nearly three decades on, as an officer with Alicante’s provincial firefighters, Alcaraz has more sympathy for the agonising choices that commanders have to make. When wildfires overwhelm an area, his job resembles that of a doctor in an emergency room with too few ventilators. Continue reading...
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- Climate crisis | The Guardian: As the climate crisis fuels more intense blazes, pushing them to new parts of the world, those tackling them are forced to ration resources and decide which to fight César Alcaraz had only just become a firefighter in…
- Climate crisis | The Guardian: Barely able to breathe and with no more water left in his truck, he and his colleagues fled an inferno ravaging Spain’s Montgó mountain region, wishing their bosses had sent more support.
- Climate crisis | The Guardian: But nearly three decades on, as an officer with Alicante’s provincial firefighters, Alcaraz has more sympathy for the agonising choices that commanders have to make.
- Climate crisis | The Guardian: When wildfires overwhelm an area, his job resembles that of a doctor in an emergency room with too few ventilators.
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- Topic: CLIMATE — the feed headline centres on ONLY, GOING, WORSE, WILDFIRES, FORCING.
- Original feed: Climate crisis | The Guardian.
- Published: 18 Jul 2026, 06:00 UK.
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