Chetco Bar Fire Engine Entrapment 2017

The Chetco-Bar fire started on July 12, 2017 on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon. On August 18th an engine was working a spot fire when conditions deteriorated. "It was then evident to Larry that their egress to the cabin was cut off by the fire streaming across the 1917 road west of them. At 12:30 Larry calmly asked the helicopter if they could see any good deployment sites and the pilot said that “Nothing is adequate for a deployment site. You need to get out.” He loaded up his two crew members just as the smoke lifted enough for them to see the road, and they drove through “a tunnel of fire” to make it safely to the area of black to the east."

Extended Attack, Engines, Structure Protection, Firing, Entrapment, Close Call