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Redmond Smokejumper Fatality 2016

  • Incident Information:

    How Do We Honor the Fallen FLA.pdf
    Redmond Smokejumper Fatality USFA Notification.pdf

  • Location:

    Alabama

  • Date:

    11/23/2016

  • Incident Type:

    Fall

  • Description:

    Ray Fernandez Rubio, of Redmond, Oregon, passed away Monday, December 19, 2016 at the Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama. With family, friends, and fellow firefighters by his side, Ray succumbed to a traumatic brain injury which he sustained the evening before he was to return home to Oregon from a wildland fire assignment. 

    Fatality, Fall

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