Oregon Wildland Firefighting
A History
Published on 11. February 2019
149 pages
978-1-4396-6612-8 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past century, some of the world's largest wildland fires have occurred in Oregon. Accidentally set by a disgruntled cook on an English ship, the Great Fire of 1845 displaced multiple tribes and boiled wildlife alive in the Columbia River. The Tillamook Burn started up every 6 years from 1933 to 1951 and incited one of the largest reseeding efforts in the world with 72 million seedlings planted. The Long Draw Fire of 2012, the state's largest in more than 150 years, started as a small spark and raged into an ocean of flames thousands of acres wide in a matter of hours. Veteran wildland firefighter Sean Davis shares harrowing firsthand accounts that illustrate what it takes to battle an inferno.
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Purple Heart recipient Sean Davis is the author of The Wax Bullet War, which chronicles his experiences in the Iraq War and the Hurricane Katrina cleanup. Sean won the American Legion's Legionnaire of the Year Award in 2015 and the Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader, Human Rights Award for 2016. Published in a variety of books and publications, Sean teaches college writing and literature classes around Portland and spends his summers fighting fires along the West Coast.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Man versus Nature
- 2. The Agencies and Organizations
- 3. The Men and Women Who Fight Wildland Fires
- 4. What You Need to Know about Fighting Wildland Fires
- 5. The Causes and Sizes of Wildland Fires
- 6. Fighting Fires in Oregon, Then and Now
- 7. The Largest Wildland Fires in Oregon
- The Great Fire, 1845
- The Silverton Fire of 1865
- The Columbia Fire or Yacolt Burn, 1902
- The Big Burn, The Great Fire, The Big Blowup or Devil's Broom Fire, 1910
- The Tillamook Burn, 1933, 1939, 1945, 1951
- The Bandon Fire, 1936
- The Ashwood-Donnybrook Fire, 1996
- Simnasho Fire at the Warm Springs Reservation, 1996
- Jackson Fire, 2000
- The Lakeview Complex, 2001
- The Biscuit Fire, 2002
- The Toolbox Complex, 2002
- The South End Complex, 2006
- The Egley Complex, 2007
- The High Cascades Complex, 2011
- The Long Draw Fire, 2012
- The Miller Homestead Fire, 2012
- The Holloway Fire, 2012
- The Buzzard Complex, 2014
- The Cornett-Windy Ridge Fire, 2015
- The Canyon Creek Complex, 2015
- Eagle Creek Fire, 2017
- Chetco Bar Fire, 2017
- 8. Why They Fight
- Notes
- About the Author
