George Brown, 41, was an inmate in Carson City who volunteered to help fight fires and was killed in a wild fire on September 29, 1926. Brown and the rest of the volunteers were working against the blaze in the vicinity of the “Double Barrels about six miles from Carson on the road to Glenbrook…. View Article

Firefighter Fred W. Steiner, 74, died on March 11, 1953, when he suffered a fatal heart attack while responding to an alarm. Fred was one of the original organizers of the Sparks Fire Department shortly after the turn of the century when the unit was nothing more than a bucket brigade. He was presented a… View Article

Fireman Joe Bass an Illinois firefighter helping the Bureau of Land Management died on July 11, 1980 when the plane he was in helping drop batteries to fire fighters fighting a two-acre wild fire crashed. It was speculated that the parachute of the package the were dropping either opened prematurely inside the plane or got… View Article

Frank W. Barker, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps’ fire crew, died on July 28, 1939, while fighting a range fire near Rock Creak in northern Humboldt County. Frank and four other crew members lost their lives in a canyon when the wind shifted and they were trapped by the flames.