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_[Firestorm](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/firestorm-jacob-soboroff?variant=43816964096034) | A best-selling book according to the New York Times, and topped the best-selling book list according to the Los Angeles Times. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a gripping and unforgettable eyewitness account” of the conflagration that tore through Los Angeles, by the MS Now reporter and New York Times bestselling author of “Fired,” who covered the fires on the ground as a Los Angeles native. The Los Angeles Times described it as “reading like a sci-fi thriller.” On the morning of January 7, 2025, Jacob Soboroff, national correspondent for MS NOW, received a text message on his phone. “Major fire in Palisades. We are evacuating the area. The situation is very dangerous,” his brother wrote within minutes of the fire consuming the hills behind the home he shared with his pregnant wife. An attached photo showed a huge plume of black smoke rising from behind the house, forming a canopy of smoke covering everything they owned. Jacob hurried to the bureau chief's office. "I have to go. I grew up in Palisades." He soon found himself in the middle of the action — his first first-hand account of what would continue for weeks as he covered incredible devastation, caused by the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire in Altadena. In the following days, Soboroff appeared on NBC News as Los Angeles burned, met with displaced residents and workers, and pressed Gov. Gavin Newsom in an interview on "Meet the Press." But none of the stories Soboroff covered, both at home and abroad—the trauma of family separation at the border, the displacement of people due to war in Ukraine, the collapse of the regime in Haiti—prepared him to report live as the flames of his childhood consumed his childhood landmarks around him, and his city burned to the ground. But for Soboroff, questions remained even after the fires were under control: What had he just seen? How did this happen? Is it inevitable that something like this will happen again? This is what led Soboroff into months of reporting — with firefighters, fire victims, political leaders, academics, geoscientists, wildlife biologists, meteorologists, and others — making him acutely aware of how the tragedy of seeing his past reduced to ash is also a form of time travel to the bleak world in which his children will live. That's because the Los Angeles fires of 2025 were not an isolated tragedy, but rather a bad omen — "the fire of the future," in the words of one senior emergency management official. "Firestorm" tells the story of the deadliest wildfire in American history, the people affected by it, and the deeply personal relationship he had with one journalist who covered it. It is a love letter to Los Angeles, a longing to understand the fires, and why America's new era of disaster portends that - unless the circumstances of the Los Angeles burning are understood - there is more, and worse, to come.