EditorialWildland firefighters work to extinguish embers in a forested area of Shining Bank, Alberta, Canada on May 19, 2023. (Jen Osborne/The New York Times)
EditorialEmbers are blown by winds during the Caldor fire in the Eldorado National Forest near Pollock Pines, Calif., Aug. 17, 2021. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
EditorialWinds whip embers as the Caldor Fire burns in the Eldorado National Forest near Pollock Pines, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
EditorialLarry Elder, the front-running challenger on the recall ballot against Gov. Gavin Newsom, speaks during a campaign event at a mall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sept. 6, 2021. (Allison Zaucha/The New York Times)
EditorialEmbers and flying sparks from the Caldor Fire in the Eldorado National Forest near Pollock Pines, Calif. on Aug. 17, 2021. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
EditorialWinds whip embers as the Caldor Fire burns in the Eldorado National Forest near Pollock Pines, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
EditorialA firefighter checks to make sure embers from the Dixie Fire do not burn a home after it reached Janesville, Calif. late Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. (Christian Monterrosa/The New York Times)
EditorialAs embers from one cremation of a person who died from COVID-19 smolder, the remains of another COVID-19 victim await the furnace?s flames at a temple in Nonthaburi, Thailand, May 6, 2021. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)
EditorialBellows, 1500-1600 Pair of Italian, ornately carved walnut and bronze bellows, made in the sixteenth century. Bellows were needed to pump air into the embers to coax the fire to life. Most of them were plain and ordinary objects. However, some bellows,...
EditorialBellows, 1500-1600 Pair of Italian, ornately carved walnut and bronze bellows, made in the sixteenth century. Bellows were needed to pump air into the embers to coax the fire to life. Most of them were plain and ordinary objects. However, some bellows,...
EditorialFirefighters look to make sure embers don't cross their line of containment during a controlled burn in Big Bend, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. (Christian Monterrosa/The New York Times)
EditorialArchitect Ian Weir at Apex Point House, which he designed with steel cladding to keep out stray embers, in White Beach, Australia, Feb. 27, 2020. (Alana Holmberg/The New York Times)
EditorialThree fragmentary iron fire-rakes, Late Classical or Hellenistic, late 4th or early 3rd century B.C., Etruscan, Iron, H.: 12 in. (30.5 cm), Miscellaneous-Iron, Iron utensils used to rake the charcoal embers of a fire.
EditorialThree fragmentary iron fire-rakes, Late Classical or Hellenistic, late 4th or early 3rd century B.C., Etruscan, Iron, H.: 12 in. (30.5 cm), Miscellaneous-Iron, Iron utensils used to rake the charcoal embers of a fire.