- Author
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Rothermel, R. C.
- Title
- Mann Gulch Fire: A Race That Coundn't Be Won.
- Coporate
- Intermountain Research Station, Ogden, UT
- Report
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FSGTR/INT-299
May 1993
14 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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forest fires
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wildland fires
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fire prevention
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fire suppression
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fire fighters
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fire fighting
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fire fatalities
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fire behavior
- Identifiers
- Mann Gulch Fire, Montana, August 5, 1949; smokejumpers
- Abstract
- Describes the final 20 minutes of a smokejumber fire-fighting crew and the fire that overran 16 men as they were attempting to escape. The foreman and two firefighters escaped. Comparison with the behavior of a crew trapped by a fire in 1985 is described.