Wildfire: Memoires of a Wildland Firefighter - Softcover

Ryan, Mr Ralph T

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484024435 ISBN 13: 9781484024430

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Wildfire is an exhilarating tale of the lengths one man goes in pursuit of a dream. Told he'll never make the cut to become an elite California Smokejumper, Ralph Ryan empolys laser-like focus, a 'never give up' attitude, and the calming mental training of Eastern mysticism to earn the right to leap out of planes and fight forest fires. There's beauty and danger in these pages, filled with bird's eye views of the world from beneath a parachute, and raging blazes just steps away. When an accident results in a broken back, Ryan offers all of us a moving lesson in belief in oneself and overcoming our own bleakest days. This is a funny, fast-paced insiders look at one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and the passion that accompanies smokejumpers every time they bail above the flames.

About this title

About the Author

Ralph Ryan fought wild land fires from California to Florida, Oregon to Alaska for fourteen years serving on fire engines, initial attack helishot crew and Smoke Jumping with the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

From the Inside Flap

"Ralph Ryan's Wildfire is a first-hand and exciting account of one of America's last great true-life adventures-Smokejumping. Live it and feel it from inside as the smokejumpers themselves do. Fly in over a fire, survey the scene below, jump from the plane, soar above the timber, and experience the passion, the pride, and the sheer guts of parachuting to wildfires amidst the grandeur of the mountainous West and Alaska."
-Murry A. Taylor, author of Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484024435
• ISBN 13: 9781484024430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244