What causes wildfires? How do we decide what fires we respond to and why? Why do wildfires disproportionately affect Indigenous people? And how can we best navigate our increasingly fiery reality?

Prairies reporter Drew Anderson talks to Amy Cardinal Christianson, Indigenous fire specialist with Parks Canada, John Vaillant, journalist and author of Fire Weather: The Making of A Beast and Trina Moyles, environmental journalist and author of Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest to break it all down:

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