August 5th is the sad anniversary of the Mann Gulch Fire [1]in Montana that took the lives of 13 firefighters (including 12 smokejumpers and one former smokejumper), in 1949. The intense, fast-moving forest fire took place in what later became the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness. The events of that fire were chronicled in the book Young Men and Fire [2] by Norman Maclean and immortalized in the haunting lyrics of the ballad Cold Missouri Waters [3] by James Keelaghan.