FIRE ESCAPE How Animals and Plants Survive Wildfires

Chloe Cannon guides listeners through this exploration of how animals and plants survive wildfires. Cannon's tone is engaging and steady as she maps out the methods nature has developed over time for animals to detect and evade wildfires. In a sensitively handled chapter with a content warning, wildfire deaths, injuries, and recovery methods are discussed. The final chapters include details on the evolving science of firefighting and on conservation efforts like controlled burns and the use of domesticated animals to consume undergrowth. Though the narration is lively, it's sometimes choppy and hard to follow due to the inclusion of sidebars and "fire facts" from the print version, which are not clearly distinguished from the main narrative. N.M. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2025]