Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire

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Storm King Mountain tragedy

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2020

There have been bigger fires with greater loss of life over the years, but for those who lived through this day, we will never forget the young people who died trying to save our families and our town. God bless them and God bless their families. They gave the ultimate sacrifice. This book portrays the events as they transpired well.

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Derek Chastain

Just OK, which I know is heresy within woodland fire community but hear me out.

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2021

First of all, I greatly respect the men and women of the woodland firefighting teams especially in the western US where so many fires are difficult to access. Cal Fire, smoke jumpers, Type 1 or 2 or fuel mitigation or volunteers or BLM or local, all of you are heroes. I've studied the South Canyon Fire extensively, though many of you likely recognize it as Storm King Mountain. This book does a good job of exploring the underlying causes and weaknesses in the system that culminated in the disaster. However, it tends to fixate on some things like the meteorologist, while not exploring the individuals' experiences on the day of the blowup. It's a good book, just not a great book. I say thank you to those of you who suit up in the green pants, yellow shirts, and work your tails off to protect life and property.

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SHANNON

Great read

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2022

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Covers the events of July 1994 of the South Canyon fire in Colorado.

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L. S. Mitchell

Love it

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2020

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Love it

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Cajon cook

Great service!

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019

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Excellent and fast service in sending my book to me. The book is as advertised.

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Stephen Kleiman

Fire on the Mountain

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2016

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This book was written very well. It gives excellent detail in the account of the tragedy that took the lives of 14 brave firefighters in 1994. I cannot wait to explore the location where the incident took place when I travel to Colorado.

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jonathan blodgett

Wildland firefighters need to read

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2018

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Super great book very well written and learned a lot and love taking everything away from it.

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JBB1

This is a well written book that reads like a good novel

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2016

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This is a well written book that reads like a good novel, but is about one of the worst firefighting tragedies in the American West. The author does an excellent job placing you in the shoes of the firefighters and victims. The author also does not pull any punches when it comes to assigning responsibility to the government agencies that could have prevented this travesty to begin with by jumping on the fire when it first emerged and by getting along enough to sharing resources. It just goes to show you, give the government something to do and they will screw it up, every time.

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