Fire on the Mountain The True Story of the South Canyon Fire

Name: Fire on the Mountain The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
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ISBN: 9780061829611

ISBN-10: 0061829617

ISBN-13: 9780061829611

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Authors: John N. Maclean

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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…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/8/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

John N. Maclean was a reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune for thirty years. He is currently at work on his second book.