Every summer there seems to be an exponential increase in the number of terrible videos on the news and the Internet that exhibit terrifying images of forests engulfed in flames and cities completely bogged down with smoke. When reading the section of Beowulf where the dragon gets mad and burns down the Geats’ homeland, the scene depicted in the poem is very similar to those scenes shown by the news. America’s wildfires may not come from a monstrous dragon, but they are just as damaging, and while Americans may not have Beowulf to protect them, they do have their own heroes: firefighters. Recently there has been an increase in wildfires, almost as if there was a dragon flying around starting fires. In Beowulf, the author states on Page
