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researching and writing the book which was published last fall. It is considered “must reading” among the smoke-jumpers and other firefighters who risk their lives battling blazes in the mountains of the West. The book also has relevance to the situation here in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where the drought of 1999 created dangerous fire conditions right in our own county.
The book is carefully researched and dramatic documentary of the fire and its tragic consequences for
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