Clarkston Grass Fire Entrapment Fatality 1928

Floyd Derrick, a laborer from Oregon, was visiting family in Clarkston, Washington, when a grass fire broke out nearby and he volunteered to assist firefighters. The fire threatened a wheat field. While suppressing the flames in a gully, Derrick became entrapped and was severely burned at approximately 1600 hours, August 7. He was taken to nearby Lewiston, Idaho, where he succumbed to his burns in the hospital about 4 or 5 hours after the entrapment.