Mises Daily
Author:
Walter Block
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The headline in the newspaper was horrendous: “Wildfire kills 4 firefighters in N. Cascades.” Pictured was Pete Soderquist, the fire management officer in charge on the Cascade Mountains in central Washington state, who explained that the deaths occurred “when what had been a five-acre fire exploded into a wall of flame that trapped the crew.”