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September 2, 2003

LONE WOLF DOCUMENTARY GROUP
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LONE WOLF DOCUMENTARY GROUP NOMINATED FOR EMMY AWARD FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN (South Portland, Maine) Lone Wolf Documentary Group Producer/Director, Lisa Quijano Wolfinger has been nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), for excellence in journalistic creativity. Lone Wolf Documentary Group's nomination is in the category of Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research, ("Fire on the Mountain" premiered on the History Channel, October 2002, and was narrated by Scott Glenn). This film was also nominated for an Emmy in 2003.

Background: The summer of 2002 is etched in our collective memory as the year the West burned. More acres were charred, more homes destroyed and more money was spent fighting fire than in any previous year. During the course of the season 21 firefighters died in the line of duty. There is a seasonal war going on out West that intensifies with each passing year. With the stakes so high tragedies will occur, just as they have in the past.

"Fire On The Mountain" reexamines the one seminal firefighter tragedy in recent memory, the South Canyon Fire and draws startling new conclusions. The film: In July of 1994, a routine wildfire blows-up on Colorado's Storm King Mountain and catches 14 elite firefighters in its path. It is the worst disaster of its kind in many years; the tragedy grabs national headlines and triggers fervent debate. Under pressure to explain what went wrong, government investigators blame the firefighters and the case is closed, but not for the people on the fireline or a lone reporter.

"Projecting an earnest and amiable nature that makes his (John Maclean's) curiosity contagious" (Barry Garron, Hollywood Reporter 28th October 2002).