firefighters perished because of the Forest Service's gross incompetence. And not a single person has been held publicly accountable for the fatal failures.

They were led down a dead-end road and sat there to do nothing -- that's the story." Indeed, the inferno had raged for more than a day; it didn't suddenly "erupt." Trapped firefighters waited for more than nine hours for water to be dropped, while bureaucrats dithered over concerns about endangered species in the water supply. It was too late for Craven, FitzPatrick, Johnson and Weaver, who died in their emergency fire shelters as the fires swept over them.

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