> With the firefighters, there's a pretty easy proximal explanation, which again is not their expertise misleading them: panic. Exactly, plus while his idea wa

> With the firefighters, there's a pretty easy proximal explanation, which again is not their expertise misleading them: panic. Exactly, plus while his idea was fascinating, its understandable that the others didnt follow suit; he essentially invented the idea: > Similar types of escape fires had been used by the plains Indians to escape the fast-moving, brief duration grass fires of the plains, and the method had been written about by James Fenimore Cooper (1827) in The Prairie, but in this case Foreman Dodge appears to have invented it on the spot, as the only means available to him to save his crew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Gulch_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Gulch_fire