No one thing led to the July 6 deaths on Storm King Mountain. It took a combination of tragic miscues. SEVERE FUEL, WIND: The creeping ground fire dried out the canopy of Gambel's oak, leaving it ...
Storm King Mountain continues to cast a shadow on wildland firefighting nearly eight years after a blowup on the mountain near Glenwood Springs claimed the lives of 14 firefighters, according to a ...
GLENWOOD SPRINGS ” On a warm and dry Friday morning, the wind is blowing at the head of the Storm King Memorial Trail. Sandy Dunbar knows it’s nothing like the conditions on July 6, 1994. That’s the ...
CARBONDALE - As the tenth anniversary of the deadly Storm King Mountain fire approaches, firefighters from around the state and across the country are expected to walk its scarred slopes, including ...