A. Blodgett was among the 78 firefighters who lost their lives in the Great 1910 Fire. He was trapped at Setser Creek, near Avery, Idaho. The firemen were trapped and tried for safety in mineshafts, or by rolling & laying in the streams to soak themselves. At Setser Creek, they also found refuge in previously burnt-out areas of the forest.
The 1910 fire lasted only two days, but destroyed nearly 5,000 square miles in a firestorm pushed by winds of over 80 mile per hour. Besides the 78 firefighters, 8 civilians also lost their lives.
58 of the lost firefighters were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in St.Maries, Benewah County, Idaho. Eight of their tombstones state unknown names - Five who died at Big Creek and three who died at Setser Creek - because the fire chiefs gathered men in such haste that some of them did not get all the volunteer firefighters' names.
There is a monument to all firefighters near the mineshaft up the road to Moon Pass, Shoshone County, Idaho, where US Forest Service Ranger, Ed Pulaski, held 48 members of the fire crew at gunpoint to keep them from panicing and running out into the flames. A photo of the monument can be viewed at: http://www.wildlandfire.com/pics/memor/memorial1910.jpg
Bibliography:
1.The Big Burn of 1910 - A Missoulian Special Section - Mountains of Fire - by Sherry Devlin, Published 2000 by Missoulian, A Lee Enterprise Publication,accessed 7/27/2006, http://www.missoulian.com/specials/1910/mountains/html;
2.AOL.Hometown - Wallace, Idaho - accessed 7/25/2006 - http://hometown.aol/Gibson0817/wallace.htm;
3.USDA Forest Service - Northern Region Forest Service - Centennial: Historic Fire Tower Lookouts & Cabin Rentals;
4.Idaho Forest Fire Stories 1910 - accessed 7/25/2006 -
www.idahoforests.org/fires2.htm;
5.The Online Encyclopediea of Washington State History - Timeline Library - accessed 7/26/2006 - www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5488;
6.Book, "Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910" by Stephen J. Pyne, published 2001,2002 by Penguin Books;
7.Woodlawn Cemetery, Saint Maries, Benewah County, Idaho - Internment.Net Cemetery Transcripton Library - submitted by Maggie Rail - [email protected] - published/copyright 1997-2006 - accessed 7/23-7/27/2006 - www.internment.net/data/us/id/benewah/woodlawn/misc.htm
The 1910 fire lasted only two days, but destroyed nearly 5,000 square miles in a firestorm pushed by winds of over 80 mile per hour. Besides the 78 firefighters, 8 civilians also lost their lives.
58 of the lost firefighters were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in St.Maries, Benewah County, Idaho. Eight of their tombstones state unknown names - Five who died at Big Creek and three who died at Setser Creek - because the fire chiefs gathered men in such haste that some of them did not get all the volunteer firefighters' names.
There is a monument to all firefighters near the mineshaft up the road to Moon Pass, Shoshone County, Idaho, where US Forest Service Ranger, Ed Pulaski, held 48 members of the fire crew at gunpoint to keep them from panicing and running out into the flames. A photo of the monument can be viewed at: http://www.wildlandfire.com/pics/memor/memorial1910.jpg
Bibliography:
1.The Big Burn of 1910 - A Missoulian Special Section - Mountains of Fire - by Sherry Devlin, Published 2000 by Missoulian, A Lee Enterprise Publication,accessed 7/27/2006, http://www.missoulian.com/specials/1910/mountains/html;
2.AOL.Hometown - Wallace, Idaho - accessed 7/25/2006 - http://hometown.aol/Gibson0817/wallace.htm;
3.USDA Forest Service - Northern Region Forest Service - Centennial: Historic Fire Tower Lookouts & Cabin Rentals;
4.Idaho Forest Fire Stories 1910 - accessed 7/25/2006 -
www.idahoforests.org/fires2.htm;
5.The Online Encyclopediea of Washington State History - Timeline Library - accessed 7/26/2006 - www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5488;
6.Book, "Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910" by Stephen J. Pyne, published 2001,2002 by Penguin Books;
7.Woodlawn Cemetery, Saint Maries, Benewah County, Idaho - Internment.Net Cemetery Transcripton Library - submitted by Maggie Rail - [email protected] - published/copyright 1997-2006 - accessed 7/23-7/27/2006 - www.internment.net/data/us/id/benewah/woodlawn/misc.htm
A. Blodgett was among the 78 firefighters who lost their lives in the Great 1910 Fire. He was trapped at Setser Creek, near Avery, Idaho. The firemen were trapped and tried for safety in mineshafts, or by rolling & laying in the streams to soak themselves. At Setser Creek, they also found refuge in previously burnt-out areas of the forest.
The 1910 fire lasted only two days, but destroyed nearly 5,000 square miles in a firestorm pushed by winds of over 80 mile per hour. Besides the 78 firefighters, 8 civilians also lost their lives.
58 of the lost firefighters were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in St.Maries, Benewah County, Idaho. Eight of their tombstones state unknown names - Five who died at Big Creek and three who died at Setser Creek - because the fire chiefs gathered men in such haste that some of them did not get all the volunteer firefighters' names.
There is a monument to all firefighters near the mineshaft up the road to Moon Pass, Shoshone County, Idaho, where US Forest Service Ranger, Ed Pulaski, held 48 members of the fire crew at gunpoint to keep them from panicing and running out into the flames. A photo of the monument can be viewed at: http://www.wildlandfire.com/pics/memor/memorial1910.jpg
Bibliography:
1.The Big Burn of 1910 - A Missoulian Special Section - Mountains of Fire - by Sherry Devlin, Published 2000 by Missoulian, A Lee Enterprise Publication,accessed 7/27/2006, http://www.missoulian.com/specials/1910/mountains/html;
2.AOL.Hometown - Wallace, Idaho - accessed 7/25/2006 - http://hometown.aol/Gibson0817/wallace.htm;
3.USDA Forest Service - Northern Region Forest Service - Centennial: Historic Fire Tower Lookouts & Cabin Rentals;
4.Idaho Forest Fire Stories 1910 - accessed 7/25/2006 -
www.idahoforests.org/fires2.htm;
5.The Online Encyclopediea of Washington State History - Timeline Library - accessed 7/26/2006 - www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5488;
6.Book, "Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910" by Stephen J. Pyne, published 2001,2002 by Penguin Books;
7.Woodlawn Cemetery, Saint Maries, Benewah County, Idaho - Internment.Net Cemetery Transcripton Library - submitted by Maggie Rail - [email protected] - published/copyright 1997-2006 - accessed 7/23-7/27/2006 - www.internment.net/data/us/id/benewah/woodlawn/misc.htm
The 1910 fire lasted only two days, but destroyed nearly 5,000 square miles in a firestorm pushed by winds of over 80 mile per hour. Besides the 78 firefighters, 8 civilians also lost their lives.
58 of the lost firefighters were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in St.Maries, Benewah County, Idaho. Eight of their tombstones state unknown names - Five who died at Big Creek and three who died at Setser Creek - because the fire chiefs gathered men in such haste that some of them did not get all the volunteer firefighters' names.
There is a monument to all firefighters near the mineshaft up the road to Moon Pass, Shoshone County, Idaho, where US Forest Service Ranger, Ed Pulaski, held 48 members of the fire crew at gunpoint to keep them from panicing and running out into the flames. A photo of the monument can be viewed at: http://www.wildlandfire.com/pics/memor/memorial1910.jpg
Bibliography:
1.The Big Burn of 1910 - A Missoulian Special Section - Mountains of Fire - by Sherry Devlin, Published 2000 by Missoulian, A Lee Enterprise Publication,accessed 7/27/2006, http://www.missoulian.com/specials/1910/mountains/html;
2.AOL.Hometown - Wallace, Idaho - accessed 7/25/2006 - http://hometown.aol/Gibson0817/wallace.htm;
3.USDA Forest Service - Northern Region Forest Service - Centennial: Historic Fire Tower Lookouts & Cabin Rentals;
4.Idaho Forest Fire Stories 1910 - accessed 7/25/2006 -
www.idahoforests.org/fires2.htm;
5.The Online Encyclopediea of Washington State History - Timeline Library - accessed 7/26/2006 - www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5488;
6.Book, "Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910" by Stephen J. Pyne, published 2001,2002 by Penguin Books;
7.Woodlawn Cemetery, Saint Maries, Benewah County, Idaho - Internment.Net Cemetery Transcripton Library - submitted by Maggie Rail - [email protected] - published/copyright 1997-2006 - accessed 7/23-7/27/2006 - www.internment.net/data/us/id/benewah/woodlawn/misc.htm
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