Twelve firefighters and two helitack crew members were killed ... The events on Storm King Mountain, the South Canyon Fire, were a seminal event in our wildland fire world. We pause to remember ...

“South Canyon, that’s when the term situational awareness ... three Smokejumpers and two Helitack crew members who were building a fire line on an adjacent slope and became trapped when the fire snuck ...

It was the place where Levi died next to 13 other firefighters while battling the South Canyon Fire on July 6, 1994. He was only 22, a member of the Prineville Hotshots. The Storm King Mountain ...

Around 4 pm on July 6, the fire blew up, jumping from South Canyon where it started up the ... before they could ascend the ridge. Two helitack crew members were also killed when the fire overtook ...

So when the South Canyon Fire raced up Storm King Mountain 30 years ago today, killing 14 firefighters — including two federal Helitack crew members based in Grand Junction, Richard Tyler and ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Standing on the very mountain where 14 of their fellow wildland firefighters died nearly 20 years ago, four firefighters who survived the deadly South Canyon Fire helped others ...

The lightning-sparked South Canyon Fire started small on July 2, 1994. It claimed just 3 acres by July 4. But local authorities called in special teams – smokejumpers, hotshots and helitack ...

This week marks 20 years since the South Canyon Fire, Colorado's worst in terms of firefighter deaths. The blaze started on July 2, 1994, on the Western Slope, and 14 firefighters died fighting it ...

Neither could two helitack firefighters fleeing nearby ... He said that after South Canyon, fire fighting agencies took a hard look at how they trained their crews. “Are we providing them ...