On the mountain peaks of the sparsely populated North American West, a network of fire alarms still works today to detect fires in time. The author of the book returns every year to the three-thousand-meter Apache Peak in southern New Mexico to watch over the mountain and desert landscape below him from April to August - this is the area where dry storms occur most often in the United States. The book offers an insider's view of the issue of fires, including historical and social contexts. It explains the natural ecological function of fire and shows how the approach to combating this element is currently being re-evaluated. Above all, it is a poetic narrative about life in the middle of impenetrable forests and mountain peaks, about nature and solitude. The author thus consciously follows in the footsteps of his famous predecessors, writers and at the same time occasional fire-callers, including beatniks Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, who listened to the muses, but also to their inner rage and fear, in solitude on mountain tops.