*Domenico Bruno and Giacomo Viettone were part of the crew sent to the St. Joe side of the ridge...by August 20, the boys from Rivara Canavese had worked sixteen days in a row... Giacomo Viettone was twenty-seven. At first no one was able to identify them, burned in that heap of other bodies in the half-built cellar at the homestead of Joe Beauchamp.
**At Big Creek, in the Coeur d'Alene forest, seven men died when they took refuge in a prospect hole. Three others there were killed by an immense falling pine.* Domenico Bruno and Giacomo Viettone died at Big Creek.
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, "Big 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
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 - five of the unknown firefighters died at Big Creek and 3 died at Setser Creek. Some of the other firefighters are buried at Nine Mile Cemetery, near Wallace, Idaho in Shoshone County.
* quotes: "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America" by Timothy Egan, published 2009 by Houghtin Mifflin Harcourt, found by Google-searching the names "Domenico Bruno" and "Giacomo Viettone" on 2/25/2014
** quote: "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
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
8.Book, "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America" by Timothy Egan, published 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
*Domenico Bruno and Giacomo Viettone were part of the crew sent to the St. Joe side of the ridge...by August 20, the boys from Rivara Canavese had worked sixteen days in a row... Giacomo Viettone was twenty-seven. At first no one was able to identify them, burned in that heap of other bodies in the half-built cellar at the homestead of Joe Beauchamp.
**At Big Creek, in the Coeur d'Alene forest, seven men died when they took refuge in a prospect hole. Three others there were killed by an immense falling pine.* Domenico Bruno and Giacomo Viettone died at Big Creek.
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, "Big 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
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 - five of the unknown firefighters died at Big Creek and 3 died at Setser Creek. Some of the other firefighters are buried at Nine Mile Cemetery, near Wallace, Idaho in Shoshone County.
* quotes: "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America" by Timothy Egan, published 2009 by Houghtin Mifflin Harcourt, found by Google-searching the names "Domenico Bruno" and "Giacomo Viettone" on 2/25/2014
** quote: "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
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
8.Book, "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America" by Timothy Egan, published 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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