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East Fire Cooking Burn Injury 2019

  • Incident Information:

    Elk Mtn. IHC (Cooking) Burn Injury (2019)

  • Location:

    California

  • Date:

    06/28/2019

  • Incident Type:

    Burn Injury

  • Description:

    An Elk Mountain IHC member was cooking a meal at a remote camp on the East Fire on the Mendocino National Forest and received a burn injury to the right hand. He was treated by U.S. Forest Service EMTs and then flown out to a nearby town via a Forest Service ship where a local medical center’s air ambulance was waiting. He was then flown to UC Davis Burn Center. He was treated and released that same day. 

    [This data was provided by the USFS Weekly Summary Report.]

    Medical Emergency, Hand Crews, Medevac, Burn Injury

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