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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.
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 ...
Sometimes referred to as the "Storm King Mountain fire". [15] Killed 14 firefighters. 1996: 11,875 acres (4,806 ha) Buffalo Creek fire: Pike National Forest south of Pine, Colorado: Destroyed 12 homes. 1996: 15,872 acres (6,423 ha) O'Pinion fire: Moffat County, Colorado, south of U.S. 40: 2000: 16,000 acres (6,500 ha) Kiowa County fire: Kiowa ...
He resigned from the newspaper after the 1994 South Canyon Fire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain killed 14 firefighters. He wrote the story of the fire [ 1 ] in his first book, Fire on the Mountain , which in 2000 won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers award for the best non-fiction book of the year.
Rainn Wilson is doing some reflecting after losing a large portion of his home in a mountain fire.. The actor and podcast host, 58, first announced that he and wife Holiday Reinhorn’s California ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced this week the start of a $26.3M safety improvement project on Route 9W across Storm King Mountain
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Fire on the Mountain (ISBN 0061829617) is a 1999 non-fiction book by John N. Maclean that describes the most famous wildland fire of the late 20th century. The book describes the events and aftermath of the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain on July 6, 1994, in Colorado, which took the lives of 14 firefighters. Those who died included ...