Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire Paperback - 2009
by John N. MacLean
Maclean chronicles the deadly 1994 Colorado forest fire that was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon, leading to one of the greatest tragedies of firefighting. Winner of the Mountains and Plains Bestsellers Association's Best Nonfiction Book of 1999 Award. plus a 8-page B&W insert.
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In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon.
This unintentional, seemingly minor human error was the first in a string of mistakes that would be compounded into one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. Before it was done, fourteen courageous firefighters--men and women, hotshots, smoke jumpers, and helicopter crew--would lose their lives battling the deadly so-called South Canyon blaze.
John N. Maclean's award-winning national bestseller Fire on the Mountain is a stunning reconstruction of the killer conflagration and its aftermath--a page-turning true adventure of nature at its most unforgiving, and a powerful, indelible portrait of a unique breed of heroes who regularly and without question place their lives on the line.
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- Title Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
- Author John N. MacLean
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books
- Publication date 2009-12-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Glossary, Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780061829611 / 0061829617
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.16 x 0.73 in (20.42 x 13.11 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1990's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Mountains
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Colorado
- Topical: Ecology
- Category Nature
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.376
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