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- On Aug. 5, 1949, a team of 15 smokejumpers parachuted into Mann Gulch, a remote canyon in Montana, to fight a small wildfire. The smokejumpers soon found themselves in an ominous situation when the fire exploded into a raging inferno, trapping them on a steep ridge with no escape route.
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The Mann Gulch fire was a wildfire reported on August 5, 1949, in a gulch located along the upper Missouri River in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness (then known as the Gates of the Mountains Wild Area), Helena National Forest, in the U.S. state of Montana.
Aug 5, 2024 · On August 5, 1949 the tragic Mann Gulch Fire was first spotted. The fire would go on to claim the lives of 12 smokejumpers and 1 fire watch guard, prompting new fire research and fire fighter training programs.
Aug 4, 2023 · On Aug. 5, 1949, a team of 15 smokejumpers parachuted into Mann Gulch, a remote canyon in Montana, to fight a small wildfire. The smokejumpers soon found themselves in an ominous situation...
Jul 10, 2009 · What happened at Mann Gulch forever changed wildland firefighting—new training techniques were developed based on what was learned and the Forest Service began studying fire behavior as part of an effort to improve safety. It also changed those 13 families and the lives of the three survivors.
The Mann Gulch Fire was discovered on August 5, 1949 in a remote canyon of the Helena National Forest in Montana. Forest Service Fire Guard James Harrison began initial attack of the fire while 15 smokejumpers from Missoula parachuted into the fire area and began to make access to attack the fire.
Aug 5, 2024 · The flames of the Mann Gulch fire spread rapidly, overtaking 16 men sent to tame it in a gulch outside of Helena. Just three survived.
On August 5, 1949, a wildfire overran 16 firefight-ers in Mann Gulch on the Helena National Forest in Montana. Only three survived—the foreman and two members of an 18-man smokejumper crew that had parachuted into a small valley or gulch near the fire. These deaths were a shocking loss to the firefighters’ families and friends.
