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SERE: survival, evasion, resistance, and escape. === The Beartooth Highway, as 212 was also known, was one of the most beautiful—and dangerous—highways in the country, a series of steep switchbacks that wound between Montana and Wyoming…
When the regular-hand crews got into a blaze they couldn’t handle, the hotshots would roll, and the only ones higher up on the food chain than them were the smokejumpers. Bunch of guys parachuting in behind walls of flame. Cheaters, Hannah…
The fire would be bordered by creeks and road and rock there, and they would believe they had it sequestered. Unless the wind had different plans. === the two giant shadows turned to two average-size men but now twice as…
“There are two kinds of men in war,” his father had said. “The killing kind, and the dying kind. If you’re the dying kind, you won’t survive shit. If you’re the killing kind, you will. It’s already in there. You’re teaching woodcraft, and…
There is no such thing as quitting time. Remember that, boys. You rest, you sleep, you pout, you cry. You’re allowed to get mad, allowed to get sad. But you’re not allowed to quit. When you feel like it, remember that you are allowed to…
The blow-dryer, Nick had called this sort of wind. You added a blow-dryer to a red-flag day, and you had serious trouble. === She was going to lie to someone, that much was required now, and it was either these men or the boy hiding under…
She was standing here crying over the dead, but right in front of her, the living needed help. === the woman could probably sleep on the tarmac of an active airport without trouble. === Hannah stared at him as if he’d just told her that…
It was called Buys Ballot’s law. In the Northern Hemisphere, if you stand with your back to the prevailing wind, the area of low pressure will be on your left and the area of high pressure on your right, because wind travels…
There was suddenly a blue luminescence to the rocks all around them. The white of the glacier looked like glass over a Tahitian sea. Saint Elmo’s fire. The eerie light that had haunted sailors for centuries, scaling the masts of tall ships…
... watched the electric storm pass and felt true hatred. She’d trusted in it and it had turned on her and become an enemy. She’d met enough enemies along the way. They chased behind and loomed ahead, and she did not need them to fall out…
Survivors, Ethan had told this last group of boys while his wife listened from the stable, do not quit. Ever. They STOP. They sit, think, observe, and plan. That, boys, is a stop. Anything else is quitting, and quitting is dying. Are you…
“It wasn’t supposed to go this way,” she said. “This one was supposed to be easy.” === Tried to let everything within him go loose and liquid. A tense shot was a missed shot. His father had taught him that. Tense muscles jerked on the…
The astonishing thing was the way it raced uphill. Gravity owned much of the world, but it did not own fire. === She’d argued with him then, told him how stupid it was, told him that attempting to run away from a forest fire was like…
They rode down from the cross then, and over that circle of healthy green grass, and even beneath the blackness, you could see the rebirth beginning, if you looked hard enough. The land would hold the scars for a long time, but it was…