Magic Mountain Fire Hit by Rock Fatality 1960

Alga Raymond Jones, a 16-year-old member of the Los Angeles County juvenile probation forestry program was critically injured by a falling rock while cold-trailing the Magic Mountain Fire on the Angeles National Forest, California. Jones, assigned to the Mendenhall Forestry Camp near Lake Hughes, was struck on the head by a rock on July 23 and was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state. He remained in what was described as a "semi-coma" for months until he passed away on December 10, 1960, at the age of 17. 

The death of Jones re-opened a controversy over the use of juveniles in county custody in fire-related work. In 1955, an adult fire captain and five minors were entrapped and fatally burned on the Hacienda Fire. 

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