In 1994, a wildFire on Colorado\'s Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon.
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