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Incident Name:  3,000 acre sagebrush Fire, Malheur National Forest
Date:  9/4/1955
Personnel: Elwood Jackson
Age: 38
Agency/Organization:  Malheur National Forest
Position: firefighter, logger

Summary: Elwood Jackson a logger from John Day OR was fighting the Sagebrush Fire on the Malheur National Forest near Seneca when he was entrapped and overrun. He did not survive.

 

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Round Butte fire was near Seneca, Oregon; no more specific information than that.

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First OR fire death, 1955 First OR fire death, 1955
First OR fire death, 1955 First OR fire death, 1955

 

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