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A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for his life, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp--finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only logging roads and the deadly crown fire is everywhere.
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Excerpt: "[Lumbermen] are in such a hurry to get rich that they'll leave their grandchildren a desert. They cut and slash in every direction, and then fires come and the country is ruined. Our rivers depend upon the forests for water. The trees draw the rain; the leaves break it up and let it fall in mists and drippings; it seeps into the ground, and is held by roots. If the trees are destroyed the rain rushes off on the surface and floods the rivers....
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Billy and Blaze books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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When Billy and his pony Blaze discover a small forest fire, they ride over a dangerous trail to give the alarm at the nearest farmhouse.
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[2009]
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Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
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[2021]
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"It begins in the Pacific Northwest. A deadly wave of massive wildfires are raging out of control, killing hundreds in their path, and showing no sign of stopping. This time, the fires are man-made. In Portland, Oregon, a sleeper cell of terrorists have recruited a disgruntled Forest Service smokejumper to train their army. To spread the fear coast to coast. To make America burn. Those who flee the hot flames are gunned down in cold blood. But one...
8) Wildfires
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents wildfires as neither good nor bad but as part of the endless cycle of change in forests and grasslands.--
9) The Big Burn
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c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
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World of adventure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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The fire was close, too close. Nikki's eyes were blurred by smoke and sweat. The trees crackled and the wind carried red-hot splinters that singed holes in the children's clothes and stung their skin. Where they stood would soon be nothing but blackened stalks and burnt earth. There was only one hope of escape!
12) Forest fire!
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c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Photographs and illustrations describe different types of forest fires, how they can start, and their impact on the people, animals, and landscape.
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Barnes, the supervisor of a Hot Shot wildfire suppression crew, is haunted by the season past, when many members of his dedicated, young team were killed in a Colorado forest fire that went all wrong, scorching the Hot Shots as they fled, some as they struggled into their fire shelters. He wakes each morning in the presence of their ghosts as they proceed across his bedroom or assemble at his kitchen table, their eyes asking questions that he cannot...
16) Home again
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Heartwood Hotel volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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"Summer has come to Fernwood Forest, and the staff of the Heartwood Hotel must trust each other as they contend with their biggest challenge yet"--
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2023
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"In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires-and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes"--
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