Poe Cabin Fire 2007

On August 7, 2007, three Hotshots received burn injuries while participating in a burn out operation on the Poe Cabin Fire. Two crews were burning and holding along a ridgeline road and had just tied the burn out into a ridgetop meadow. Two lookouts were established and being used. The road was their pre-identified escape route with two safety zones; a series of meadows down the ridge and a large helispot up the ridge. Fire in the canopy across the road was a trigger point to stop burning and go to safety zones.

Hand Crews, Entrapment, Burn Injury, Firing, Extended Attack, LCES, Burn Injury