John L. Gray, 50, was a firefighter with the Bureau of Land Management in the Carson City District. He passed away August 15, 1996, when he had a fatal heart attack while trying to repair a leak in a tanker truck having just returned from a wildland fire. He was survived by his wife, Sharon.

Chief Deputy John Dorff, 48, a firefighter with the Nevada State Fire Marshal Division, succumbed to leukemia and passed away May 30, 1995. He was known as a fighter both on and off the front line, investigating fires. Under his guidance, the state Fire Marshal’s Office exceeded the national average in arson arrests. He had… View Article

Farrell Gale, 43, 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… View Article

Clay Farnsworth, 35, was a Boise, Idaho, pilot whose company had been one of the first to contract with the Bureau of Land Management for helicopter services. Clay was part of the army of wildland firefighters to respond to Nevada’s destructive wildland fire season of 1964. He had been ferrying firefighters to the Elko area… View Article