"One southern reporter said it outright: "Hell, look at them. They're just poor white trash, mostly."

"Despite all the vitriol we've directed at it, despite all the technology we've deployed to fight it, wildfire still erupts in the union of earth and sky, in the form of a lightning strike to a tree, and there is nothing we can do to preempt it. The best we can do, in a place like the Gila, is have a human stationed in a high place to cry out the news."