Wildland Firefighting


The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
The Great Peshtigo Fire: Stories and Science from America’s Deadliest Fire
The Peshtigo Greenhorn
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
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Embers of October
 
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Robert W. Wells
On the Burning Edge: A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It
Norman MacLean Collection: River Runs Through It, Young Men, Big Blackfoot
Young Men and Fire
Hell on Earth: The Wildfire Pandemic
One Foot in the Black
The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57
Ghosts of the Fireground: Echoes of the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Calling of a Wildland Firefighter
The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account (Wisconsin)
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
Matthew Desmond
Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local parade route, lights flashing; they are not the subject of countless popular books and movies; major politicians do not honor their sacrifices on the Senate floor or from the Rose Garden; they do not have bagpipe bands, fancy equipment, enduring icons, or other signifiers of honor verifying the importance of their activity.
Matthew Desmond, On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters