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The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57 Reviews Borrow By John Maclean. From HighBridge Company.  (13 reviews) Amazon rank #1,547,903The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California. It destroyed 41,000 acres and dozens of homes and cost the taxpayers $16 million dollars. But by far the highest costs of the conflagration were the lives of the five-man crew of Engine 57, the first engine crew ever killed fighting a wildland blaze. Fire and superheated gases had erupted in a freak “area ignition,” sending flames racing across three-quarters of a mile in mere seconds, engulfing the crew and the house they were defending. |
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The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57
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