Pulaski County Fire Entrapment Fatalities 1924

J. P. Shephard (full name not readily available), William Henry Stoots and Clarence Mack Wyrick were entrapped and killed trying to suppress a forest fire near Pulaski, Virginia. Shephard and Stoots were employees of the town of Pulaski, and Wyrick was a boy of 13 who accompanied them to the fire that was burning in the town's watershed. According to media reports, a wind shift trapped the three and they were badly burned. Wyrick's death certificate indicates his death occurred at the scene of the entrapment, at approximately 1630, April 3, 1924. Stoots is noted to have survived to be brought to the hospital in Pulaski, where he perished later that night.