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Gunflint Burning : Fire in the Boundary Waters /
On May 5, 2007, two days into his twenty-seventh trip to the Boundary Waters, Stephen Posniak found a perfect spot on Ham Lake and set about making a campfire. Over the next two weeks, the fire he set would consume 75,000 acres of forest and 144 buildings. More than one thousand firefighters would r...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Map of the Ham Lake Fire; Abbreviations; Prologue; Before the Storm; 1 Stephen Posniak; 2 The Weather Begins to Turn; 3 The Burning of Windigo Lodge; Fire Day One; 4 Preparation; 5 Volunteers and Water; 6 Posniak Strikes the Match; 7 First Responders; 8 A Growing Firefight; 9 Witnesses; 10 An Interrupted Journey; 11 Front Lines; 12 Questions; 13 Spotting Out of Control; Fire Day Two; 14 An Alarming Glow; 15 The Evacuation Moves Forward; 16 Managing Chaos; 17 The Long Afternoon; 18 Fire at the Tip of the Bay; 19 Last Stand; Fire Day Three; 20 Saving the Seagull Guard Station.
- 21 In the Heart of the Heart of the Flames22 Shock; 23 The First Burnout; The Big Burnout; 24 Backfire; 25 Fire down the Line; 26 Ham Lake Fire, Days 6-Ư11; Aftermath; 27 The Investigation; 28The Indictment; Epilogue; Sources and Acknowledgments; Index.