Lackawanna County Fire Entrapment Fatality 1923

Antonio "Tony" DiLeo, a gardener working on a farm in Dunmore, northeast of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was entrapped and perished fighting a forest fire on April 28, 1923. The fire was one of a large number of fires in that part of Pennsylvania at the time which were eventually suppressed with the aid of widespread rain. Delco spotted the forest fire while working on the farm and went alone to attempt suppression. His body was discovered later. The cause of death was attributed to suffocation and burns.