Keim is the director of the Charles Moore Foundation, which owns the Burns House, and he flew in last week from Austin to try to save it — clearing brush and putting out small fires with a bucket and a garden hose. He’s been documenting the strange life of an architectural preservationist turned firefighter on his Instagram. I talked to him between his tours of the area about getting past police lines, learning how to fight fire, and his taste for French boots.
