![]() ![]() Soon at least 86 people would be dead in a new and ferocious kind of climate change-inflected wildfire. Goggia didn’t know it yet, but he had been engulfed by the deadliest wildfire in recorded California history. So he turned back around against the traffic. The van was going to burn up with him and the cat inside, he thought. ![]() But the street was so clogged with people trying to escape that Goggia barely moved. By 9am he was on the road, accompanied by his tabby cat, Mikey. ![]() Goggia inhabited the same stucco, three-bedroom house he grew up in. His sister, who lived nearby, called to ask him to help a relative in the area, but Goggia told her that he couldn’t: chunks of burning wood were falling from the sky. He heard the piercing metallic clang of propane tanks exploding in the distance. William Goggia awoke to a poisonous orange atmosphere so thick with smoke he couldn’t see the sun. ![]()
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