Former CCHS grad and Prineville Hotshot, Kate Hamberger, reflects on her firefighting career with a memoir of her experiences, Local News, Prineville local News, Breaking News alerts for Prineville city.
Through interviews with family, colleagues, and the lone survivor, a former hotshot pieces together their final hours and the fatal choices that will haunt firefighting forever.
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Aspen Times editorial board
There used to be a popular perception that our beautiful little neck of the woods was immune to the direct ravages of wildfire. That, of course, was a myth.
The Roaring Fork Valley has suffered more than its share of wildfires from the tragic South Canyon Fire that killed 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain on July 6, 1994, to the Coal Seam Fire that destroyed 43 structures in and around West Glenwood Springs in 2002 and the Lake Christine Fire that destroyed three homes and threatened countless others in the El Jebel area in 2018, to last summer’s Grizzly Creek Fire that created mayhem for travelers on Interstate 70 that persists to this day with flash floods in the burn scar. This year the Sylvan Lake Fire still burns close to home, just one major valley north of Fryingpan Valley.