About Kurt Kamm
Malibu resident Kurt Kamm has used his experience in several devastating local wildfires and access to Los Angeles County firefighters to write a compelling novel about the life of a wildland firefighter. Mr. Kamm spent two years in the wildland firefighter camps and female inmate fire camps of Los Angeles County Fire Department. He also visited the CalFire Academy in Ione, CA. He interviewed firefighters, helicopter pilots, paramedics and traumatic stress counselors while writing this story.
Kurt Kamm has lived in Malibu for several years with his wife and three dogs. He was previously a Wall Street executive and semi- professional bicycle racer. He is Vice Chairman of the UCLA/Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Foundation and an avid supporter of the Wildland Firefighter Foundation.
One of the fires in Malibu, the 80 mile-per-hour Santa Ana wind-driven Canyon Fire, burned to his front door and destroyed the homes of several neighbors. Mr. Kamm said the lessons he learned from L.A. County Fire Department while writing this book helped him save his home.
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Sign on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu
posted after the Canyon/Corral fires
destroyed
sixty-two homes