Wildfire
Wildfires examined through terrain, weather, escape, firefighter decisions, and the management systems that changed afterward.
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Investigations
The Way Out Was Underground
During the Big Burn of 1910, Ed Pulaski led roughly 45 firefighters into an abandoned mine tunnel. Their survival became legend—and the fire helped shape a century of American wildfire policy.
The Fire He Lit Himself
In 1949, smokejumper foreman Wag Dodge stopped running from the Mann Gulch Fire and deliberately lit another fire in front of himself. His crew had never been trained to understand why.