Fire on the Mountain Audiobook (Free)

On the morning of July 3, 1994, the website of the forest open fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded with the district’s Bureau of Land Management office as occurring in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the history of firefighting. That seemingly small human mistake foreshadowed the many other minor mistakes that, three days later, will be compounded in to the fatalities of fourteen firefighters, four of these women. In this dramatic about Open fire on the Mountain reconstruction from the disaster and its own aftermath, John N. Maclean tells the heroic and cautionary tale of people who have been experts within their field but became the victims of character at its most unforgiving.

No one is better equipped to show this story than the writer, whose dad, Norman Maclean, wrote the classic accounts of Mann Gulch, Young Men and Fireplace, in whose publication the younger Maclean assisted after his father’s death. Fire over the Mountain took nearly five years to total and involved nearly fifty thousand miles of auto travel. The audiobook brings to light many fresh facts about the open fire through a large number of freedom of Information Action demands and countless interviews with survivors and associates of the official investigating team, among whose people refused to indication the final report after an extended and bitter issue about where in fact the blame for what happened should be positioned.

Fire for the Mountain is, however, more than mere investigative journalism. And will be offering actions and experience storytelling at its greatest, it also provides deeply moving insights in to the lives and dreams of a special breed of people who put their personal well-being at risk as part of their daily careers.