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.
Maclean\'s award-winning national bestseller Fire on the Mountain is a stunning reconstruction of the killer conflagration and its aftermath..
John N.
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.
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.
In 1994, a wildFire on Colorado\'s Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. plus a 8-page B&W insert.
Winner of the Mountains and Plains Bestsellers Association\'s Best Nonfiction Book of 1999 Award.
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
