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Snowbird Creek Fire Hit by Tree Fatality 1931

  • Location:

    Idaho

  • Date:

    08/20/1931

  • Incident Type:

    Hit by Tree

  • Description:

    John Moss, a 64-year-old rancher from Carlin Bay on Coeur d'Alene Lake, Idaho, was killed by a falling tree on the Snowbird Creek Fire on the Coeur d'Alene National Forest. Moss was transported by stretcher from the fireline. Approximately one-half later, he died of his injuries--described in his death certificate as a "crushed chest."

    Other sources call this fire the Magee Fire; Snowbird Creek drains the north side of Magee Peak. 

    Hit by Tree, Fatality

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