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Location:
Idaho -
Date:
08/17/1926 -
Incident Type:
Hit by Tree -
Description:
Jefferson Seneca, a Forest Service firefighter on a fire crew working to suppress the Caribou Fire on the Pend Oreille National Forest perished after being struck by a falling tree. Seneca was taken to the hospital in Bonner's Ferry where he succumbed to his injuries.
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