Maggie Durham, 60, and a member of the Searchlight Volunteer Fire Department, died of injuries she sustained while responding to a motor vehicle accident on January 23, 1987. Maggie stepped across the highway from her residence waiting for the Searchlight rescue unit to pick her up, which had been the custom. When she heard an… View Article

Wilton L. Desilet of Butte, Montna, a co-pilot with the Bureau of Land Management, was killed on October 11, 1962, along with pilot Ted Schuler when their air bomber crashed while attempting to drop bentonite on a brush fire 24 miles outside of Fallon, Nevada. The plane was a converted World War II bomber and… View Article

Flight engineer, Michael Davis, 59, of Bakersfield, California and the other two members of his crew, died on June 17, 2002, when their C-130 air tanker’s wings snapped off and crashed after dropping fire retardant on the Cannon Fire in Walker, California. He started working for Hawkins and Powers in 1994.

Captain Glen D. Davis of the Reno Fire Department lost his life on August 15, 1948, in a fire that consumed multiple buildings on Lake Street in Reno, Nevada.