Sunday, May 25, 2014 3:23:06 PM
Fire on the Mountain
A memorial plaque and an American flag mark the spot in the box canyon near Yarnell, Arizona, where the Granite Mountain Hotshots deployed their fire shelters and made their last stand.
Photos of the 19 fallen hotshots and the lone survivor, Brendan McDonough, framed and hanging on the fence outside their former base.
Last June, 19 firefighters lost their lives trying to control a blaze near Yarnell, Arizona—the highest death toll for firefighters battling a wildfire in this country since 1933. What went wrong? Is it time to reconsider our approach to fighting fire?
May 21, 2014
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/fire-on-the-mountain/361613/ [with comments]
A memorial plaque and an American flag mark the spot in the box canyon near Yarnell, Arizona, where the Granite Mountain Hotshots deployed their fire shelters and made their last stand.
Photos of the 19 fallen hotshots and the lone survivor, Brendan McDonough, framed and hanging on the fence outside their former base.
Last June, 19 firefighters lost their lives trying to control a blaze near Yarnell, Arizona—the highest death toll for firefighters battling a wildfire in this country since 1933. What went wrong? Is it time to reconsider our approach to fighting fire?
May 21, 2014
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/fire-on-the-mountain/361613/ [with comments]
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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