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The South Canyon Fire was a 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1994. It is often also referred to as the "Storm King" fire. It was the subject of John Maclean's book Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire.
The Mountain fire had burned more than 20,700 acres as of Friday evening, with parts of Camarillo and Moorpark hit hardest. The greatest devastation occurred Wednesday when the fire charged ...
Storm King Mountain is a mountain in the White River National Forest of the Rocky Mountains, 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in northeastern Garfield County. It is on the north side of the Colorado River and Interstate 70 (I-70), between Glenwood Springs and New Castle .A ski lift at the Copper Mountain Ski Resort is ...
The Mountain fire has been the most destructive wildfire in Southern California in several years — though it has not approached the damage caused by the 2017 Thomas fire, which scorched more ...
The Mountain fire could have been a second coming of the 2017 Thomas or 2018 Woolsey fires, but luckily it didn't pan out that way, said Mark Lorenzen, the Ventura County Fire Department chief ...
The Mountain Fire began shortly before 9:00 a.m. PST on November 6 during an episode of strong Santa Ana winds in Southern California. [2] The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center delineated an "extremely critical" risk area on their Day 1 fire weather outlook, warning of low relative humidity values combined with a strong wind event with gusts of over 65 miles per hour (105 km/h ...
Several of the country’s worst fires, including California’s Dixie Fire in 2021, Texas’ Smokehouse Creek Fire in 2024 and the Maui wildfires of 2023, were all linked by authorities to ...
Cheyenne Mountain fire: Fort Carson, Colorado: Destroyed 89 buildings in and around Camp Carson and killed 8 people. Although reports claim the fire was over 45 square miles in size, this number was likely exaggerated. 1950: 2,000 acres (810 ha) Grand Mesa fire: Grand Mesa, west of Cedaredge, Colorado. 1951: 350 acres (140 ha) Fremont Peak fire ...