Storm King Mountain Memorial Trail, New Castle, Colorado
March 12th 2013 Storm King Mountain Memorial Trail (14 photos)
When I joined the park service as a wildland firefighter the first three days of classes were spent spent dissecting what happened here...On July 2, 1994 lightning sparked a fire near the base of Storm King Mountain 12 firefighters were unable to outrun the blaze and perished. Two more helitack firefighters were also killed as they tried to fl
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