**Deborah Wallace *is the author of In the Mouth of the Dragon: Toxic Fires in the Age of Plastics and, with Rodrick Wallace, Studies on the Collapse of the Fire Service in New York City *. She works as an ecologist for Consumers' union. Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Department of M...

**Deborah Wallace *is the author of In the Mouth of the Dragon: Toxic Fires in the Age of Plastics and, with Rodrick Wallace, Studies on the Collapse of the Fire Service in New York City *. She works as an ecologist for Consumers' union. Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Department of Mental Health Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric institute.