A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949
by: Mark Matthews
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.379
EAN: 9780806138572
ISBN: 0806138572
Label: University of Oklahoma Press
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: October 30, 2007
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Sales Rank: 433644
Studio: University of Oklahoma Press
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Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive.
Not until 1999--the fiftieth anniversary of the fire--did people begin to talk openly about Mann Gulch. Matthews has garnered those thoughts to reveal how devastating the fire was to the firefighters' family members, coworkers, and friends. In retelling the story of Mann Gulch, he draws on the testimony of the three survivors--including never-before-published insights from the last living member of the team--and interviews with former smoke jumpers of that era. The result is a moment-by-moment, heart-stopping re-creation of events.
The Mann Gulch tragedy provoked the Forest Service to develop safety equipment and training programs, but fighting wildfires is still a perilous job.
Matthews' stirring account renews our respect for one of nature's primal forces. A heartbreakingly human story, it still haunts a firefighting community--and keeps today's firefighters forever on guard.
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- A GREAT DAY TO FIGHT FIREAs the son of the Range, Bob Jansson, this book had special meaning to me. Although there have been ... Read More
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- A book with an ending you already know.....As a volunteer fire fighter/EMT here in southwest Montana, and a wildland firefighter during the summer ... Read More
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- A minute by minute personal accoutThe Mann Gulch,MT. fire of 1949 was a seminal point in modern wildfires firefighting for the U.S. Forest ... Read More
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- An essential piece of information key to any collection strong in firefighting literatureMark Matthews has written about the Mann Gulch fire before, and avid readers of firefighting literature may ... Read More
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