Friday, July 11, 2014

[californiadisasters] Re: 1953 Rattlesnake Fire, 7/9/2014, 10:00 pm



The volunteer firefighters were not Native American. The were volunteers from a evangelical Christian Mission called The New Tribes Mission.  The early 50's were deadly for them, 15 killed in a plane crash in June 1950, followed by another plane crash that November killing 21, including the founder. Then this fire followed 3 years later. The story of the fire is also in one of John Norman Maclean's book "Fire and Ashes"

 



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