Think Again- Day 1

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Prologue After a bumpy flight, fifteen men dropped from the Montana sky. They weren’t skydivers . They were smokejumpers : elite wildland firefighters parachuting in to extinguish a forest fire started by lightning the day before. In a matter of minutes , they would be racing for their lives. The smokejumpers landed near the top of Mann Gulch late on a scorching August afternoon in 1949. With the fire visible across the gulch, they made their way down the slope toward the Missouri River. Their plan was to dig a line in the soil around the fire to contain it and direct it toward an area where there wasn’t much to burn. After hiking about a quarter mile, the foreman, Wagner Dodge, saw that the fire had leapt across the gulch and was heading straight at them. The flames stretched as high as 30 feet in the air. Soon the fire would be blazing fast enough to cross the length of two football fields in less than a minute. By 5:45 p.m. it was clear that even containing the fire was off the table. Realizing it was time to shift gears from fight to flight, Dodge immediately turned the crew around to run back up the slope. The smokejumpers had to bolt up an extremely steep incline, through knee-high grass on rocky terrain. Over the next eight minutes they traveled nearly 500 yards, leaving the top of the ridge less than 200 yards away. With safety in sight but the fire swiftly advancing, Dodge did something that baffled his crew. Instead of trying to outrun the fire, he stopped and bent over. He took out a matchbook, started lighting matches, and threw them into the grass. “We thought he must have gone nuts ,” one later recalled. “With the fire almost on our back, what the hell is the boss doing lighting another fire in front of us?” He thought to himself: That bastard Dodge is trying to burn me to death. It’s no surprise that the crew didn’t follow Dodge when he waved his arms toward his fire and yelled, “Up! Up this way!” What the smokejumpers didn’t realize was that Dodge had devised a survival strategy: he was building an escape fire. By burning the grass ahead of him, he cleared the area of fuel for the wildfire to feed on. He then poured water from his canteen onto his handkerchief , covered his mouth with it, and lay facedown in the charred area for the next fifteen minutes. As the wildfire raged directly above him, he survived in the oxygen close to the ground. Tragically , twelve of the smokejumpers perished. A pocket watch belonging to one of the victims was later found with the hands melted at 5:56 p.m. Why did only three of the smokejumpers survive? Physical fitness might have been a factor; the other two survivors managed to outrun the fire and reach the crest of the ridge. But Dodge prevailed because of his mental fitness. کانال عادت های اتمی: @English_prism کانال موزیک: @Luminous_music کانال مکالمات روزمره: @Foroughpapi پیج اینستاگرام: Luminous__english 📚هایلایت قسمت 01 کتاب Think Again (بخش اول مقدمه) ✅ bumpy flight : پرواز پر تکان ✅ drop : افتادن ✅ skydiver: چترباز ✅ smokejumper: آتشنشان جنگل ✅ elite : خبره ✅ Wildland: منابع طبیعی ✅ parachuting : با چتر فرود آمدن ✅ extinguish : خاموش کردن ✅ land: فرود آمدن ✅ scorching : سوزان ✅ slope: شیب ✅ dig : کندن ✅ soil : خاک ✅ hiking : پیاده روی(مخصوصا در طبیعت) ✅ leapt: شکل سوم فعل leap ✅ gulch : دره باریک ✅ flame : شعله ✅ stretch : کشیده شدن ✅ blazing : شعله ور شدن ✅ immediately : بلافاصله ✅ bolt up : بالا رفتن ✅ extremely : به شدت ✅ steep: شیب تند ✅ incline : شیب ✅ safety : امنیت ✅ swiftly : به سرعت ✅ baffle : گیج کردن ✅ matchbook : قوطی کبریت ✅ survival : زنده ماندن ✅ escape : فرار ✅ canteen : قمقمه ✅ handkerchief : دستمال ✅ cover: پوشاندن ✅ facedown : دمر ✅ wildfire : آتش جنگل ✅ tragically : متاسفانه ✅ perish : تلف شدن ✅ victim : قربانی ✅ manage to: موفق شدن ✅ outrun : فرار کردن، جلو زدن ✅ prevail : موفق شدن ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

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