A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949 Alejandro Chaoul and co-editor of Christian Perspectives

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A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949 Alejandro Chaoul and co-editor of Christian PerspectivesMann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation's consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the victims' families robbed Maclean's account of an essential personal dimension. Shifting the focus from the fire to the men who fought it, Mark Matthews now provides that