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This title in other formats:Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the Sourth Canyon Fireby John Maclean
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:When, on the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded as taking place at South Canyon, it became the first of a series of seemingly small human errors that, three days later, led to the deaths of fourteen fire fighters, including four women. Fire on the Mountainsets out to answer three mysteries that surrounded the blaze: Why wasn't the fire, which could be seen clearly from an interstate highway, put out earlier? Why did Don Mackey, a smoke jumper who was already a legend in his own time, turn back to the fire after making his way to safety? And how could such a seasoned group of fire fighting professionals be caught off guard so badly? With the aid of papers obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and dozens of interviews, Fire on the Mountainalso takes a long, hard look at the official investigation that followed the fire and the divided conclusions of the investigative team. If this book is action/adventure at its best, it also offers deeply moving insights into the lives of the smoke jumpers, hot shots, and helitacks who fight forest fires and put their own well being on the line as a daily part of their jobs. Review:"Abbey can attain a kind of glory in his writing.He takes scenes that have been well-traveled by other writers, and re-creats then as traditionla american myths."(-- The New York Times Book Review) About the AuthorThe son of Norman Maclean, who wrote the classic account of the Mann Gulch forest fire, Young Men and Fire, John N. Macleanwas, for thirty years, a writer, reporter, and editor for the Chicago Tribune.He now divides his time between Washington, D.C., and Montana. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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