Daniel Hase a firefighter helping the Bureau of Land Management, died on July 11, 1980, when the plane he was in helping drop batteries to firefighters fighting a two-acre wildfire crashed. It was speculated that the parachute of the package they were dropping either opened prematurely inside the plane or got caught in the tail… View Article

Todd Harrison, a member of the Bureau of Land Management, died on July 11, 1980, when the plane he was in helping drop batteries to firefighters fighting a two-acre wildfire crashed. It was speculated that the parachute of the package they were dropping either opened prematurely inside the plane or got caught in the tail… View Article

Firefighter Colin Hanley, 25, died March 1, 1968, while fighting a blaze that ended up destroying a manufacturing company. He inhaled highly toxic gas, phosgene, which was produced by the burning celluloid in the factory. Phosgene is the gas used in chemical warfare. He had only been with the Clark  County Fire Department for only… View Article

Meredith “Riff” Williams, 36, was a member of the Virginia Fire Department, Nevada Hook & Ladder Company No. 1,  when he died on October 20, 1872. Meredith went into the mines below Virginia City to fight a fire that broke out on April 7, 1869. Meredith was overcome by smoke and gas and rescued by… View Article