The Resource The Fire Outside My Window : a Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire, Younger, Sandra Millers
The Fire Outside My Window : a Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire, Younger, Sandra Millers
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The item The Fire Outside My Window : a Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire, Younger, Sandra Millers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- The Fire Outside My WindowLeaving her doomed home the night of the catastrophe, the author, Sandra Millers Younger, drove through flames and, along with her husband, was saved by a bobcat that showed her the road she couldn?t see through dense smoke. With this revealing narrative, she takes readers into the heart of an epic firefight, telling the stories of fire managers and air tanker pilots trying to combat a catastrophe bigger than they had ever imagined, and recounting both survivors? and victims? desperate efforts to escape flames moving faster than fire engines could drive. And she tells the story of the hapless hunter who got lost in the backcountry, with little water and no cell phone or GPS device, and started a signal fire that caused the calamity
- Language
- eng
- Extent
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- 1 online resource
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Note
- Electronic book
- Isbn
- 9780762799329
- Label
- The Fire Outside My Window : a Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire
- Title
- The Fire Outside My Window
- Title remainder
- a Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire
- Statement of responsibility
- Younger, Sandra Millers
- Subject
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- 2000-2099
- Biographies
- Biography
- California -- San Diego County
- Disaster victims
- Disaster victims -- California | San Diego County -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- History
- NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Natural Disasters
- San Diego County (Calif.) -- Biography
- Wildfires
- Wildfires -- California | San Diego County -- History -- 21st century
- Younger, Sandra Millers
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Fire Outside My WindowLeaving her doomed home the night of the catastrophe, the author, Sandra Millers Younger, drove through flames and, along with her husband, was saved by a bobcat that showed her the road she couldn?t see through dense smoke. With this revealing narrative, she takes readers into the heart of an epic firefight, telling the stories of fire managers and air tanker pilots trying to combat a catastrophe bigger than they had ever imagined, and recounting both survivors? and victims? desperate efforts to escape flames moving faster than fire engines could drive. And she tells the story of the hapless hunter who got lost in the backcountry, with little water and no cell phone or GPS device, and started a signal fire that caused the calamity
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- Younger, Sandra Millers
- Dewey number
- 363.4
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- LC call number
- SD421.32.C2
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- Younger, Sandra Millers
- Wildfires
- Disaster victims
- San Diego County (Calif.)
- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Natural Disasters
- NATURE
- Disaster victims
- Wildfires
- California
- Label
- The Fire Outside My Window : a Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire, Younger, Sandra Millers
- Note
- Electronic book
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- 864670709
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- 1 online resource
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
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- Isbn
- 9780762799329
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- (OCoLC)864670709
- Label
- The Fire Outside My Window : a Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire, Younger, Sandra Millers
- Note
- Electronic book
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 864670709
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
-
- 1 online resource
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780762799329
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- c91bbg9
- ed872c13-3299-4867-bc99-424719e82718
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
-
- remote
- other
- System control number
- (OCoLC)864670709
Subject
- 2000-2099
- Biographies
- Biography
- California -- San Diego County
- Disaster victims
- Disaster victims -- California | San Diego County -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- History
- NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Natural Disasters
- San Diego County (Calif.) -- Biography
- Wildfires
- Wildfires -- California | San Diego County -- History -- 21st century
- Younger, Sandra Millers
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