Lamb Creek Fire Entrapment Fatalities 1925

John Gleason and Ole Jackson were killed while assigned with a fire crew on the Lamb Creek Fire, Kaniksu National Forest, near Priest Lake, Idaho. The men were found over 24 hours after they went missing on the fire. One account from fellow crew members states that the men were unable to escape a flare up of fire behavior on the line caused by a sudden wind shift, being caught in an area of heavy blow down timber. Attempts to find relatives of either of the deceased were unsuccessful, and they were buried next to each other in the cemetery for poor or unclaimed decedents in Newport, Washington. Two survivors of the entrapment, Emil Lambert and Luke Krikor, suffered burn injuries an had to walk eighteen miles from the fire scene to receive help. 

Entrapment, Fatality, Hand Crews, Extended Attack