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Young Men and Fire is a 1992 non-fiction book written by Norman Maclean. It is Maclean's story of his quest to understand the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 and how it led to the deaths of 13 wildland firefighters, 12 of them members of the USFS Smokejumpers. The fire occurred in Mann Gulch in Montana's Gates of the Mountains Wilderness on August 5.
Dennis Edward Smith (September 9, 1940 – January 21, 2022) was an American firefighter and author. He was the author of 16 books, the most notable of which is the memoir Report from Engine Co. 82, a chronicle of his career as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department in a South Bronx firehouse from the late 1960s and into the 1970s. [1]
Then and Now is a series of books published by Salamander Books, a subsidiary of Pavilion Books. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the United States, Thunder Bay Press publishes some books of the series as well. The series began in the 1960s under the imprint of B. T. Batsford Ltd. and now covers historical photographic collections compared with contemporary ...
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The fire was a topic in the prologue to Adam Grant's book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (2021). The Mann Gulch fire was the subject of Norman Maclean's book Young Men and Fire, [45] which was published after his death. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction in 1992.
The little boys now see women can also be firefighters. ... Then CauseCamp is for them. After a successful first season of summer camps in 2023, the nonprofit Blue Missions was encouraged by ...
Allison then met with the people Welles had saved, including Wein and Young, and they confirmed his identity through photographs. [4] [6] A mostly completed New York City firefighter application was discovered in his home after his death. According to survivor accounts, Crowther saved as many as 18 people during the attacks.
After evacuating from the Eaton fire, our columnist wonders if climate change, the insurance crisis and other factors have made remaining, or rebuilding, too risky. Column: Fire is part of L.A.'s ...