Recounts the events surrounding the September 1, 1894 forest fires that surrounded the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping more than two thousand people.
Meg, Alison, and Becky, alone at Mustang Mountain Ranch after Becky's mother is hospitalized, put themselves in serious danger when they attempt to rescue two missing horses in the midst of a forest fire.
The summer before her fourteenth birthday, a fierce forest fire rages throughout northwestern Oregon and threatens the logging camp where Storie and her family live.
Explains wildfires and their causes, explores the dangers and benefits of forest fires, and provides information on fire fighting methods and the special problems encountered when wildfires strike populated areas.
Depicts, in text and illustrations, the stages of fire and regrowth in a Western lodgepole pine forest over a period of three hundred years. Also discusses the fire cycle and the role of fire in forest ecology.
Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts tries to help two children trapped by a forest fire but finds her efforts blocked by poachers who want her to become one of the fire's victims.