Wildfires are striking closer and closer to cities. We know how this will end | Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano

The climate crisis is a factor, but so are efforts to fight fires - which have had the opposite effect

We call them wildfires, but that might not be the right word any more.

In recent days, at least five whole towns have been destroyed by fire in Oregon. So has much of Malden, Washington, and swathes of Big Creek and Berry Creek, both in California.