Camas Creek Fire Medical Emergency Fatality 1929

On August 24, 1929, John F. Martin was assigned to the Camas Creek Fire on the Chelan National Forest in Washington when he suddenly collapsed and died. An autopsy determined his cause of death was pulmonary infarction--the blockage of blood supply to the lungs. Martin's death was coincidentally on the same day as the discovery of the bodies of Ernani St. Luise and Douglas C. Ingram on the same fire. The Chelan National Forest is now the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. 

Medical or Exertion or Heat, Fatality, Medical Emergency