The Thirtymile Fire

“Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting” from our premier chronicler of wildfires and those who fight them ( National Geographic Adventure ). The Thirtymile Fire in the remote North Cascade Range near the Canadian border in Washington began as a simple mop-up operation. In a few hours, a series of catastrophic errors led to the entrapment and deaths of four members of the fire crew—two teenage girls and two young men. Each had brought order and meaning to their