Rock Creek Fire Entrapment Fatalities 1939

On the afternoon of July 28, 1939, five enrollees from Civilian Conservation Corps Camp F-5 at Paradise Valley, Nevada, were entrapped and burned to death on a sagebrush fire near Orovada. During initial attack of the fire, a sudden shift in wind direction caused a downhill fire run than entrapped the CCC crew. In their attempt to escape to their truck, five firefighters were either injured in escape or became disoriented, or were attempting to aid their injured comrades when the fire overran them. 

Those Civil Conservation Corps firefighters lost on the Rock Creek Fire were: Frank Barker, Walter James, George Kennedy, Earnest Tippin, and Frank Vitale. 

Fatality, Entrapment, Initial Attack, Fire Behavior, Entrapment