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Mudd Fire Engine Entrapment 2006

  • Incident Information:

    Mudd Fire
    mudd_24_hour_2006
    Mudd_Deployment_72hour_2006
    mudd_factual_report

  • Location:

    Nevada

  • Date:

    08/23/2006

  • Incident Type:

    Entrapment

  • Description:

    August 23, 2006, Mudd Fire - Elko County, Nevada.
    At approximately 5:41 p.m. a burnover and fire shelter deployment occurred involving a BLM type 6 engine. While suppressing a wildfire two BLM firefighters left their fire engine due to a flat tire and received minor burns while deploying their fire shelters. Both firefighters were evacuated from the fire scene by helicopter to a waiting Elko County ambulance.

    Firing, Burn Injury, Engines, Initial Attack, Fire Shelter Deployment, Entrapment

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