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

ISBN-13:	9780061829611
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/08/2009
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	275
Sales rank:	270,168
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

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. 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.