Green Hill Fire Hit by Tree Fatality 1939

Robert Whitesides, the forest fire warden of Chimney Rock Township, North Carolina, was killed by a falling snag on the Green Hill Fire on the afternoon of April 10, 1939. Whitesides, a local farmer, joined a crew of volunteers, forestry workers, and CCC firefighters on a wind-driven forest fire. Whitesides was struck on the head and received severe head injuries, and was taken to Rutherford hospital, where he died just before midnight. 

Hit by Tree, Fatality, Hand Crews, Initial Attack