Lamb Creek Fire Entrapment Fatalities 1925

John Gleason and Ole Jackson were killed while assigned to a fire crew on the Lamb Creek Fire on the Kaniksu National Forest, near Priest Lake, Idaho. The men were found more than 24 hours after they went missing on the fire. One account from fellow crew members states that the men, caught in an area of heavy blow-down timber, were unable to escape a fire behavior flare-up on the fireline caused by a sudden wind shift.

Attempts to find relatives of either of these deceased two men were unsuccessful. They were buried next to each other in a Newport, Washington cemetery for poor or unclaimed decedents.

Two survivors of this same entrapment, Emil Lambert and Luke Krikor, suffered burn injuries and had to walk 18 miles from the fire scene to receive help. 

Entrapment, Fatality, Hand Crews, Extended Attack