I picked up this book, in part because I read a lot of things about disasters and in part because I like reading books about firefighters. I grew up in a fire family, and I find myself to be considerably more appreciative of the people who put their lines on the line to serve where they are needed. This book was about the surviving member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who died while working a fire. This team member survived, because he was separate from his group monitoring weather conditions. This was a truly tragic event, and I cannot begin to imagine the amount of loss and survivor's guilt that he must have felt. Everyone should read this book, and others like it, and really get a good understanding of what our emergency services workers go though. This was by far the most moving book I have read this year.