The Thirtymile Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Thirtymile Fire write by John N. Maclean. This book was released on 2013-11-12. The Thirtymile Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A riveting account of the deadly Thirtymile fire and the controversy and recriminations that raged in its aftermath, from our premier chronicler of wildfires and those who fight them The Thirtymile fire in the remote North Cascade range near the Canadian border in Washington began as a simple mop-up operation. In a few hours, a series of catastrophic errors led to the entrapment and deaths of four members of the fire crew—two teen-age girls and two young men. Each had brought order and meaning to their lives by joining the fire world. Then the very flames they pursued turned on them, extinguishing their lives. When the victims were blamed for their own deaths, the charge brought a storm of controversy that undermined the firefighting community. Continuing a tradition established in his previous books, and by his father Norman's Young Men and Fire, John N. Maclean serves as an unflinching guide to the rogue fire's unexpected violence—which is almost matched by the passions released by the official verdict of the blaze. Weaving together the astonishing stories told by the witnesses, the victims' family members, and the official reports, Maclean produces a dramatic narrative of a catastrophe that has changed the way fire is fought. More than anything, it is a story of humanity at risk when wildfire, ancient and unpredictable, breaks loose
Fire on the Mountain
Fire on the Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire on the Mountain write by Dale A. Johnson. This book was released on 2008-08-28. Fire on the Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biography of experiences by an American living in Southeast Turkey and Northern Iraq during and after the first Gulf War.
The Thirtymile Fire
The Thirtymile Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Thirtymile Fire write by John N. Maclean. This book was released on 2008-05-27. The Thirtymile Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting."—National Geographic Adventure The Thirtymile Fire in the North Cascade Range near the Canadian border of Washington began as a simple mop-up operation; in a few hours, a series of catastrophic errors led to the entrapment and deaths of four members of the fire crew—two teenage girls and two young men. Each had brought order and meaning to their lives by joining the firefighting world. Then the very flames they pursued turned on them, extinguishing their lives. Weaving together the astonishing stories told by the fire's witnesses and, later, the victims' family members and the response to the official reports, John N. Maclean creates a riveting account of the deadly Thirtymile Fire and the controversy and recriminations that raged in its aftermath.
Fire and Ashes
Fire and Ashes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire and Ashes write by John N. Maclean. This book was released on 2003. Fire and Ashes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Esperanza Fire
The Esperanza Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Esperanza Fire write by John N. MacLean. This book was released on 2013-02-01. The Esperanza Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When a jury returns to a packed courtroom to announce its verdict in a capital murder case every noise, even a scraped chair or an opening door, resonates like a high–tension cable snap. Spectators stop rustling in their seats; prosecution and defense lawyers and the accused stiffen into attitudes of wariness; and the judge looks on owlishly. In that atmosphere of heightened expectation the jury entered a Riverside County Superior Court room in southern California to render a decision in the trial of Raymond Oyler, charged with murder for setting the Esperanza Fire of 2006, which killed a five–man Forest Service engine crew sent to fight the blaze. Today, wildland fire is everybody's business, from the White House to the fireground. Wildfires have grown bigger, more intense, more destructive—and more expensive. Federal taxpayers, for example, footed most of the $16 million bill for fighting the Esperanza Fire. But the highest cost was the lives of the five–man crew of Engine 57, the first wildland engine crew ever to be wiped out by flames. They were caught in an "area ignition," which in seconds covered three–quarters of a mile and swept the house they were defending on a dry ridge face, where human dwellings chew into previously wild and still unforgiving territory. John Maclean, award–winning author of three previous books on wildfire disasters, spent more than five years researching the Esperanza Fire and covering the trial of Raymond Oyler. Maclean offers an insider's second–by–second account of the fire and the capture and prosecution of Oyler, the first person ever to be found guilty of murder for setting a wildland fire.
