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Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire by Norman F. Maclean Paperback, 301 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-10: 0-226-50062-4 / 0226500624 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50062-1 / 9780226500621 On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these d |