This book was suggested to be from Goodreads, as I had previously read a book about Granite Mountain and The Thirty Mile Fire. I got this particular book on Audible with my credits, and listened it fairly quickly. The Esperanza Fire started on October 26, 2006 via arson. It was also fueled by the Santa Ana winds, making the spread of fire extremely rapid. This fire took the lives of five firemen, burned something like 50+ structures, damaged the paved highway, and burned over 40,000 acres. There were an additional number of fire personnel who were injured in various ways, but recovered. I was highly irritated with how everyone wanted to place blame on the firemen. Perhaps they made good decisions and the conditions rapidly changed, perhaps they made poor decisions. The fact that they lost their lives is more than enough punishment for whatever decisions that were made that were unfortunate. The fact remains that this fire was intentionally set by a louse, and none of them would have been there to make any decisions if the fire was not set on purpose. Oyler had some previous run ins with the legal system, and had plenty of red flag, creepy qualities. I had to Google the images of the fire and people involved while I was listening to this book, and I have to say that he looks similar to the imagine my mind conjured up. During the book it said he had an ICP poster on his wall that, as stereotypical as this sounds, told me basically all I needed to know about his personality. I hate to say a book like this is good, because of the subject matter, but it was interesting, engaging, well written and researched, and I learned quite a bit about this event that I did not know. I would highly recommend for anyone interested in disasters, crime, or firefighting.