Lincoln National Forest Fire Entrapment Fatality 1940

Jay Vaughn Paris, an 18-year-old Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) crewmember, was entrapped and killed on a 300-acre fire on the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico. Paris was mobilized with a CCC hand crew from the camp at Tularosa to attack the fire, and with three fellow crewmembers was involved in suppressing spot fires when the fire ran towards the men. An alternate account blames a firing operation on the entrapment. Paris' three companions were able to escape but Paris became cut off and perished. 

Entrapment, Fatality, Hand Crews