Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
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On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.
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elancaster65 12 years, 9 months ago
This is a great book. From this incident the USFS formulated the "how" to fight fire. It is still in effect today and the lessons learned from 1949 are still expounded upon every year at the USFS.
Eric
Formerly Lead 5-2
R5 USFS
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