Caskets containing the bodies of Mann Gulch fire victims await shipment home to families in this August 1949 photo. The fire Aug. 5, 1949 near Helena, Mont., took the lives of 12 smokejumpers and a forest ranger. (AP Photo/Courtesy USDA Forest Service)
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Remembering the Mann Gulch fire, 75 years on
Seventy-five years ago, earth and sky turned into fire.