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View showing the West Flank Fireline, looking northeast across the West Drainage
Date(s)
July 2, 1994 (1994-07-02) — July 11, 1994 (1994-07-11)
Statistics[1]
Burned area
2,115 acres (9 km2)
Impacts
Deaths
14
Ignition
Cause
Lightning
The South Canyon Fire was a 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1994. It is often also referred to as the "Storm King" fire.
It was the subject of John Maclean's book Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire.
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