Joe Denton was among the 78 firefighters who lost their lives in the Great 1910 Fire. He was trapped at Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, alongwith others who had no escape but to try to soak themselves in the creek and lay in it, praying the flame, heat, and smoke would not overtake them.
Winds as high as 80 miles per hour made the 1910 fire become a 4,500+ square mile firestorm like no other since. Eight civilians also lost their lives.
There is a monument to all firefighters near the mineshaft up the road to Moon Pass, Shoshone County, Idaho, where US Forest Service Ranger, Pulaski, held 48 members of the fire crew at gunpoint to keep them from panicing and running out into the flames. The men in the mine were the only surviving firefighters of this immense fire.
A total of 58 of the firefighters are buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in St. Maries, 8 of their names unknown because the fire crew chiefs had gathered men in such haste that names were missed in recruiting. Some of the other firefighters are buried at Nine Mile Cemetery, near Wallace, Idaho in Shoshone County.
Winds as high as 80 miles per hour made the 1910 fire become a 4,500+ square mile firestorm like no other since. Eight civilians also lost their lives.
There is a monument to all firefighters near the mineshaft up the road to Moon Pass, Shoshone County, Idaho, where US Forest Service Ranger, Pulaski, held 48 members of the fire crew at gunpoint to keep them from panicing and running out into the flames. The men in the mine were the only surviving firefighters of this immense fire.
A total of 58 of the firefighters are buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in St. Maries, 8 of their names unknown because the fire crew chiefs had gathered men in such haste that names were missed in recruiting. Some of the other firefighters are buried at Nine Mile Cemetery, near Wallace, Idaho in Shoshone County.
Joe Denton was among the 78 firefighters who lost their lives in the Great 1910 Fire. He was trapped at Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, alongwith others who had no escape but to try to soak themselves in the creek and lay in it, praying the flame, heat, and smoke would not overtake them.
Winds as high as 80 miles per hour made the 1910 fire become a 4,500+ square mile firestorm like no other since. Eight civilians also lost their lives.
There is a monument to all firefighters near the mineshaft up the road to Moon Pass, Shoshone County, Idaho, where US Forest Service Ranger, Pulaski, held 48 members of the fire crew at gunpoint to keep them from panicing and running out into the flames. The men in the mine were the only surviving firefighters of this immense fire.
A total of 58 of the firefighters are buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in St. Maries, 8 of their names unknown because the fire crew chiefs had gathered men in such haste that names were missed in recruiting. Some of the other firefighters are buried at Nine Mile Cemetery, near Wallace, Idaho in Shoshone County.
Winds as high as 80 miles per hour made the 1910 fire become a 4,500+ square mile firestorm like no other since. Eight civilians also lost their lives.
There is a monument to all firefighters near the mineshaft up the road to Moon Pass, Shoshone County, Idaho, where US Forest Service Ranger, Pulaski, held 48 members of the fire crew at gunpoint to keep them from panicing and running out into the flames. The men in the mine were the only surviving firefighters of this immense fire.
A total of 58 of the firefighters are buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in St. Maries, 8 of their names unknown because the fire crew chiefs had gathered men in such haste that names were missed in recruiting. Some of the other firefighters are buried at Nine Mile Cemetery, near Wallace, Idaho in Shoshone County.
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