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By Kyle Dickman

NAMED the best BOOKS OF THE yr through MEN’S magazine • In the culture of Sebastian Junger’s The ideal Storm and Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers comes a real and heartbreaking story of braveness, tough judgements, and supreme sacrifice. On the Burning side, by award-winning journalist and previous wildland firefighter Kyle Dickman, is the definitive account of the Yarnell Hill Fire.

On June 28, 2013, a unmarried bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that wolfed greater than 8 thousand acres in northern Arizona. Twenty elite firefighters—the Granite Mountain Hotshots—walked jointly into the blaze, instruments of their palms and emergency hearth shelters on their hips. just one of them walked out.

Dickman brings to the tale a qualified firefighter’s figuring out of the way wildfires ignite, how they unfold, and the way they're fought. He is familiar with hotshots and their tradition: the ache and glory of a coarse and important activity, the brotherly bonds born of harmful paintings. Drawing on dozens of interviews with officers, households of the fallen, and the lone survivor, he describes in brilliant element what it’s prefer to stand within a raging fire—and exhibits how the elevated inhabitants and reduced water offer of the yankee West ensure that many extra younger males will step into harm’s approach within the coming years.

Praise for On the Burning Edge

“What makes this publication a tear-jerking vintage is the seamless demeanour within which Dickman weaves a century of fire-management historical past into the absolutely discovered tales of the men’s lives—the sweat, the adrenaline, the orange glow of fireplace inside their aluminum shelters, and the chewing gum that hotshot Scott Norris left within the bathe earlier than telling his female friend, Heather, ‘I’ll look after it later. I promise.’”—Outside

“Dickman deals a riveting account of a deadly profession and acts of nature such a lot violent—and those that face either down.”—Library Journal

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