This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rod Harper walked across a carpet of ash, nails, and broken glass to the burned-out skeletons of two of his vehicles. On the ground, several pools of melted aluminum stood out against the scorched earth. The Pawnee Fire was so hot when it ripped through his property in Northern California’s Lake County late Saturday that it liquified the cars’ wheels.