To put out fires in our lives and to quench the fires ravaging our world, we need the fire of the Holy Spirit burning in us, a fire which sears as it heals.

In the summer of 1994, there occurred the most devastating tragedy in the history of "smoke jumping."Smokejumpers are elite squads of firefighters, parachuting "hotshots," who take great pride in being on the front lines of out-of-control wildfires. Smokejumpers constitute the first and most dangerous stage of defense for wilderness fires.

On a windy day in July, on the appropriately named Storm Mountain in Colorado, the smokejumpers came too early on the scene. What had been another typical forest fire burning in the bottom of a small canyon was suddenly whipped by a strong, stray wind into an explosion of heat and flame which raced…