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Location:
Utah -
Date:
08/26/1990 -
Incident Type:
Entrapment -
Description:
Sheriff's Deputy Blake Wright and Public Works employee Ralph Broadhead were entrapped and killed on the Wasatch Mountain Fire on the night of August 26. The two men were cutting fireline in the initial attack phase of the fire when they were cut off by the rapidly expanding fire. Their bodies were discovered at 0330 the following day.
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