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July 02, 2013

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Remembering The Mann Gulch Fire of 1949

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Rachel McCarthy
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As investigators try to determine what happened to the nineteen firefighters who died this past weekend near Yarnell, Arizona, we remember the Mann Gulch canyon wall fire of 1949.  Smokejumper Bob Sallee is now the lone survivor of that fire, which burned 4,500 acres in Montana. 

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"Veins of Coal" by Horse Flies;  "Cold Missouri Waters" by James Keelaghan

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