Fire on the Mountain
The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · December 8, 2009
In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon.
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- Who it’s for
- A focused reconstruction follows how early errors compounded into a firefighting tragedy.
- Themes
- Wildfire disaster, Firefighting, Human error and tragedy
- Genres
- Natural Disasters, Western U.S. History, 20th-Century America
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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 merely the first in a string of mistakes that would be compounded into one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting.
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Before it was done, fourteen courageous firefighters—men and women, hotshots, smokejumpers, 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.
Fire and Consequence
A focused reconstruction follows how early errors compounded into a firefighting tragedy.
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- A close look at the 1994 Colorado wildfire
- The human cost of decisions under pressure
Expect
- A reconstruction of the fire and its aftermath
- Fourteen firefighters lost their lives battling the blaze
Where it sits
| Western U.S. History | 52% |
|---|---|
| Natural Disasters | 46% |
| 20th-Century America | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- U.S. State & Local History
- 19th-Century America
- 20th-Century America
- 21st-Century America
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- Middle Atlantic History
- Midwest History
- Southwest U.S. History
- Western U.S. History
- Authors
- John N. Maclean
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- December 8, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wildfire disaster · Firefighting · Human error and tragedy
- Reading lane
- U.S. State & Local History