Chatsworth Fire Entrapment Fatalities 1936

A large group of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) firefighters were mobilized from their Bass River Camp 225 in Tuckerton, New Jersey to fight a fire in the pine barrens. A firing operation on one portion of fireline experienced a wind shift and entrapped a large group of firefighters who attempted an escape in multiple trucks. While a large group escaped the area, another truck crashed in the heavy smoke from the fire run. This truck's occupants were burned over. Five of these firefighters received severe burn injuries and died either at the scene or shortly thereafter. Eight other firefighters injured in this entrapment were hospitalized. 

Those firefighters who perished on the Chatsworth Fire: three CCC crewmembers, Stanley Carr, John LaSalle, and Edward Sullivan; State Forest Ranger Ira Morey; and Whitesville Fire Department firefighter Kingsley White.

Entrapment, Fatality, Burn Injury, Hand Crews, Firing