Brian Mittge Commentary: A New Look at ‘a Hero on Mount St. Helens’

By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle

Posted 5/8/20

“Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!”

– David Johnston, 8:32 a.m., May 18, 1980

Those final words of volcanologist David Johnston are deeply moving. From a ridge 5 1/2 miles from …

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