The Fire Line The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell Arizona in June of setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history the twenty
When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history, the twenty men who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots sprang into action.An elite crew trained to combat the most challenging wildfires, the Granite Mountain Hotshots were a ragtag faWhen a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history, the twenty men who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots sprang into action.An elite crew trained to combat the most challenging wildfires, the Granite Mountain Hotshots were a ragtag family, crisscrossing the American West and wherever else the fires took them The Hotshots were loyal to one another and dedicated to the tough job they had There s Eric Marsh, their devoted and demanding superintendent who turned his own personal demons into lessons he used to mold, train and guide his crew Jesse Steed, their captain, a former Marine, a beast on the fire line and a family man who wasn t afraid to say I love you to the firemen he led Andrew Ashcraft, a team leader still in his 20s who struggled to balance his love for his beautiful wife and four children and his passion for fighting wildfires We see this band of brothers at work, at play and at home, until a fire that burned in their own backyards leads to a national tragedy.Impeccably researched, drawing upon than a hundred hours of interviews with the firefighters families, colleagues, state and federal officials, and fire historians and researchers, New York Times Phoenix Bureau Chief Fernanda Santos has written a riveting, pulse pounding narrative of an unthinkable disaster, a remarkable group of men and the raging wildfires that threaten our country s treasured wild lands.
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Fernanda Santos is an award winning journalist and the author of The Fire Line The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, winner of the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award for Best First Nonfiction Book The Fire Line tells the story of 19 firefighters killed in an Arizona wildfire in 2013 the deadliest in the United States since 1933, with the greatest loss of life among firefighters since the September 11 attacks.Fernanda has reported in three languages, in Latin America and in the United States She grew up in Brazil, where she bore witness to violence, inequality and immeasurable hope In those scenes, she found her passion for telling true stories.