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Jan 11, 2022 · Much of what we know about the fire seems to come from his research, painstakingly collected and detailed in this book. The short version of the story is that lightning started a fire on the south side of Mann Gulch, which empties into the Missouri River, some ways north from Helena.
Sep 7, 2016 · On August 5, 1949, a team of Smokejumpers parachuted into the Mann Gulch area, in what is now known as the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness. As the fifteen men, under their foreman, Wagner “Wag” Dodge, approached the fire to begin an attack, it blew up on them, whipped by ferocious winds.
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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.
Mann Gulch, twenty-five miles or so northeast of Helena, Montana, about 4 p.m., confronted a blowup fire an hour and a half later, and raced ahead of roaring flames that engulfed them before 6 p.m. In Part I of Young Men and Fire Maclean replays their fatal race against the fire; in Part II he tells the story of his own labor, again with ...
The Mann Gulch fire is an event that shocked the mid-century Forest Service fire community, and interest in the event led to many changes and advances in training, safety procedures, and fire science that have benefitted the entire wildland fire service in the years since the fire.
Jul 3, 2013 · For James Keelaghan — the author and composer of "Cold Missouri Waters," a song about the deadly 1949 Mann Gulch wildfire that killed 13 firefighters in Montana — it was the sound of his tune...
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