Melendy Fire Entrapment 1970

At approximately 1315 hours on August 1, 1970, while engaged in suppressing the Melendy Fire in San Benito County as a member of the Hollister Forest Fire Station crew, Forest Firefighter Arthur D. McMillan, aged 17, suffered serious burns. He was flown by a U. S. Forest Service helicopter to the Hazel Hawkins Hospital at Hollister, California, where McMillan was diagnosed with second-degree burns on his hands, arms, shoulders, face and legs. He was transferred to hospital in Monterey where he was treated and expected to recover without disability.

Initial Attack, Firing, Burn Injury, Fire Behavior, Entrapment