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She Survived Eleven Days Alone Above a Burning Valley
She Survived Eleven Days Alone Above a Burning Valley
Heat, smoke, and radio silence turned a routine lookout post into a life-or-death trap: a fully charged radio transmitted from sixty feet up the Tallow Peak lookout while 64 searchers and 11 agencies were searching four miles away. How did a methodical 26-year-old with supplies, a cistern of roughly 22 gallons, and training end up sheltering alone for eleven days while crews assumed she had evacuated?
In this episode, we follow the timeline of what happened at the Tallow Peak Fire Lookout and how decisions on the ground and in command left…
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