In Memoriam
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8/6/45 |
Malvin L. Brown |
555th Hq. Co.
(Triple Nickles) |
Fell 150 feet while attempting a letdown while jumping the Lemon Butte Fire northeast of Roseburg, Oregon |
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7/4/46 |
Lester Lycklama |
McCall |
Struck in head by tree limb during a tree -felling operation on the Fall Creek Fire, on the Payette National Forest in Idaho. |
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8/5/49 |
Eldon Dietter |
Missoula |
Burns while fighting Mann Gulch fire on the Helena National Forest in Montana. |
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8/5/49 |
Robert Bennett |
Missoula |
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8/5/49 |
Philip McVey |
Missoula |
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8/5/49 |
David Navon |
Missoula |
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8/5/49 |
Leonard Piper |
Missoula |
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8/5/49 |
Stanley Reba |
Missoula |
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8/5/49 |
Marvin Sherman |
Missoula |
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8/5/49 |
Henry Thol, Jr. |
Missoula |
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8/5/49 |
Newton Thompson |
Missoula |
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8/5/49 |
Silas Thompson |
Missoula |
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8/6/49 |
William Hellman |
Missoula |
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8/6/49 |
Joseph Sylvia |
Missoula |
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6/23/58 |
Keith Alonzo (Gus) Hendrickson |
North Cascades |
Crash of Twin Beech N164Z during cargo drop on Eight Mile Ridge Fire, Okanagan National Forest, Washington |
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6/23/58 |
Gerald Helmer |
North Cascades |
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6/23/58 |
Robert Carlman |
North Cascades |
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8/4/59 |
John Rolf |
Missoula |
Crash of Tri-Motor N8419 while landing at Moose Creek RS, Nezperce National Forest in Idaho. |
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8/4/59 |
Gary Williams |
Missoula |
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7/9/65 |
Kenneth Salyer |
McCall |
Crash of Twin Beech during cargo drop on Norton Creek Fire, Payette National Forest in Idaho. |
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5/11/66 |
Arden Davis |
Fairbanks |
Strangulation during attempted letdown on practice jump. |
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5/5/1967 |
Tommy Smith |
Cave Junction |
Drowning during packout from project work in Kalmiopsis Wilderness in Oregon. |
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6/3/70 |
Tom Reginnetter |
Redding |
Static line wrapped around neck while exiting aircraft |
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9/28/70 |
Steven Grammer |
Redding |
Died while a passenger on a helicopter on the Forks Fire, Angeles National Forest, California. |
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5/31/91 |
Bill Martin |
Missoula |
Practice jump with Quantum Ram Air parachute. Main parachute was never deployed. |
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5/1/92 |
Dale Swedeen |
Missoula |
Complications from a broken back on fire jump 31 years previous. |
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7/6/94 |
Don Mackey |
Missoula |
Burns while fighting Storm King fire in Colorado. |
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7/6/94 |
Roger Roth |
McCall |
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7/6/94 |
Jim Thrash |
McCall |
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4/29/00 |
David John Liston |
Fairbanks |
Died when his parachute failed to open while on a refresher jump on Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks |
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