In a South Florida bereft of rain, even the dirt burns. Florida fire fighter Mike Fauly attempts to beat down a subterranean wildfire along Krome Avenue in smokey, smoldering west Miami-Dade County. Temperature records fall after a decade of record breaking temperatures. And, despite the oil lobby's scientists-for-hire protestations, world wide conditions adhere to the scientific consensus that the globe is warming, the sea is rising and, in South Florida, the very muck is afire.