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Thread #80485 Message #1470757
Posted By: open mike
25-Apr-05 - 10:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Disaster/Emergency Movies (serious)
Subject: RE: BS: Disaster/Emergency Movies (serious)
it seems there might have been a movie made of the fire in the Oakland Hills in what was it? 1999?
i recently read a book about a forest fire...called firestorm by Nevada Barr. i do not think it has been made into a movie.
Also there was the book Young Men and Fire about a fire over 50 years ago where 13-15 fire fighters were burned over..Mann Gulch, Montana. I do not know if they have made a movie of it, but it was written my Norman Maclean, the fellow who wrote A river runs thru it. And James Keelahagn has an awesome song Cold Missouri waters. Norman's son John Maclean has researched the Storm King fire in Colorado where a similar number of fire fighters were killed a few years ago. There was a documentary on t.v. not too long ago..i think it was called fire on the mountain about Storm King and several other disasterous fires -- including the Chicago one supposedly started by mrs. murphy's cow kicking over a lantern in the barn and another huge one in Wisconsin at a lumber mill http://www.historychannel.com/ available in vhs annd dvd http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=43572