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Fire on the Mountain

The True Story of the South Canyon Fire

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Fire on the Mountain

By: John N. MacLean
Narrated by: John N. MacLean
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 On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded by the district's Bureau of Land Management office as taking place in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. That seemingly small human error foreshadowed the numerous other minor errors that, three days later, would be compounded into the deaths of 14 firefighters, four of them women. In this dramatic reconstruction of the disaster and its aftermath, John N. MacLean tells the heroic and cautionary story of people who were experts in their field but became the victims of nature at its most unforgiving.©1999 John N. MacLean, All Rights Reserved (P)1999 Simon & Schuster Inc., All Rights Reserved Adventure Travel Americas Biological Sciences Botany & Plants Environment Outdoors & Nature Politics & Government Science State & Local United States Words, Language & Grammar World Writing & Publishing Adventure Natural Disaster Nonfiction Adventure
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The performance was really good 3rd person stuff. the story moved perspective and required close listening to keep up with. This feel is consistent with actually being involved with wildfire but makes poor divided concentration listening that said if you had an interstate car trip it might make good company.

read well but the story jumps all over

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This is easy to listen to, but hard to hear. Examines casualties in the South Canyon fire

great firefighting documentary

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