Fire on the Mountain

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. Before it was done fourteen courageous firefighters--men and women hotshots smokejumpers and helicopter crew--would lose their lives battling the deadly so-called South Canyon blaze. John N. Maclean's award-winning national bestseller <em>Fire on the Mountain</em> is a stunning reconstruction of the killer conflagration and its aftermath.