By Kyle Dickman
On June 28, 2013, a unmarried bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that wolfed greater than 8 thousand acres in northern Arizona. Twenty elite firefighters—the Granite Mountain Hotshots—walked jointly into the blaze, instruments of their fingers and emergency hearth shelters on their hips. just one of them walked out.
Dickman brings to the tale a qualified firefighter’s realizing of ways wildfires ignite, how they unfold, and the way they're fought. He knows hotshots and their tradition: the ache and glory of a coarse and important task, the brotherly bonds born of harmful paintings. Drawing on dozens of interviews with officers, households of the fallen, and the lone survivor, he describes in vibrant aspect what it’s prefer to stand inside of a raging fire—and exhibits how the elevated inhabitants and diminished water offer of the yank West make sure that many extra younger males will step into harm’s manner within the coming years.
Praise for On the Burning Edge
“What makes this e-book a tear-jerking vintage is the seamless demeanour within which Dickman weaves a century of fire-management historical past into the absolutely discovered tales of the men’s lives—the sweat, the adrenaline, the orange glow of fireplace inside their aluminum shelters, and the chewing gum that hotshot Scott Norris left within the bathe ahead of telling his female friend, Heather, ‘I’ll look after it later. I promise.’”—Outside
“Dickman bargains a riveting account of a perilous profession and acts of nature such a lot violent—and those that face either down.”—Library Journal
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