Fire on the Mountain

By John N MacLean,

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

Book description

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.…

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1 author picked Fire on the Mountain as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read this book as research to write my wildland fire series and because I’m a former wildland firefighter, having fought wildfires in Montana, Alaska, and California.

I love true stories about people I know, and one of the smokejumpers in this book is someone I worked with a long time ago in Missoula, Montana. I enjoy reading this author’s books because he does thorough research, and his novel writing style keeps me on the edge of my seat.

However, it is hard to read because not all books have happy endings. This is why I write romance: I must…

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