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Type: Report
Publication Date: 1994
[Excerpted from text] The South Canyon Fire tragedy resulted from a series of judgments, decisions, events, and actions with serious cumulative impacts. None of the people involved would have knowingly made decisions that led to the deaths of 14 firefighters.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
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Citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S. Department of the Interior; U.S. Department of Commerce [USDA, USDI, and USDC]. 1994. Report of the South Canyon Fire Accident Investigation Team (SCAIT). U.S. GPO 1994-573-183 / 84023 Region No. 8. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 243 p.
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Keywords:
- blowup fires
- Colorado
- fatalities
- fire entrapment avoidance
- fire spread
- fuel moisture
- Gambel oak
- topography
- weather
- wind
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