Stanley M. Rhoads 48, of Elko, a Barrick Goldstrike Mine employee was killed April 11, 1994, fighting a mill refinery fire that caused extensive damage to the gold recovery room. Stanley was on the mine’s emergency response team that fought the blaze and he was found inside the refinery. Stanley was born January 2, 1946,… View Article

Kendall Preas passed away on August 15, 2007, when he lost his battle with cancer. He was a firefighter for 22 years with Las Vegas Fire and Rescue. He was born November 19, 1946, in Fresno, California, and raised in Sanger, California. Ken graduated from Sanger High School and attended Fresno State University, graduating with… View Article

Eugene Ottonello, official of the Bureau of Land Management, died at 47, on November 13, 1997, while working on a prescribed burn in Nevada. Eugene, a decorated Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam war, began experiencing difficulty breathing and collapsed during a prescribed fire in Nye County’s Railroad Valley. He died of cardiac failure induced… View Article

Martin Panian died September 6, 1870, when he was  struck on the head, fell into an open cistern, and drowned while fighting the Ashland House stable fire on the divide in Gold Hill, Nevada. He was a member of the Liberty Engine Company No. 1, Gold Hill Fire Department.