In part 2, Maclean returns to Mann Gulch with the two living survivors of the fire and his research assistant Laird Robinson, himself a former Smokejumper. Maclean set out to learn whether some of the Smokejumpers were killed or cut off by Dodge's fire, as some of their families alleged. Dodge survived by lying down in the ashes of his fire as the main fire passed over him. Wagner "Wag" Dodge to light an "escape fire" ahead of the main fire that his men were trying to outrun. Part 2 tells of Maclean's attempt to find meaning in the disaster by understanding the Smokejumpers' decisions and the fire's behavior: "If there is a story in Mann Gulch", he writes near the beginning of part 2, "it will take something of a storyteller to find it." Ĭentral to the book is the decision by the Smokejumpers' foreman R. In part 1, Maclean gives a minute-by-minute account of the unusual "blowup" that trapped the Smokejumpers in Mann Gulch. Young Men and Fire is structured in three parts.
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