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Storm King
(redirected from Storm King Mountain)

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Storm King, mountain, 1,355 ft (413 m) high, SE N.Y., on the west shore of the Hudson River near West Point. It is included in the Palisades Interstate Parks.


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The tragedy at Storm King Mountain, where 14 firefighters lost their lives in a quick moving forest fire, is just one example where the denser and drier forests have proved destructive to both lives and property.
Linn and his mentor, laboratory fellow Frank Harlow, want to prevent another tragedy like the one July 6, 1994, in which 14 firefighters were killed on Colorado's Storm King Mountain by wind-driven flames that suddenly raced up a steep hillside.
Still, I cannot jog the oak-lined streets of Uptown New Orleans or bike up Storm King Mountain at Cornwall-on-Hudson without casing every house I pass and asking if that house is "me.
 
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