Friday, July 11, 2014

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



William,

Thanks for clarifying that! I wonder how it got into some of the popular recounting of this tragedy that they were all Native American... perhaps the name of the mission caused people to jump to conclusions.... given the title did not refer to Native Americans it makes this group sound more like some cult. Anywho, here are the names of the deceased which are rather WASP-ish... and sadly, a lot of children lost their dads:

Robert Powers, 35, married two children, FS employee
Ray Sherman, 19, married, no children
Stan Whitehouse, 30, married, four children
Stan Vote, 24, single, FS employee
Darrel Noah, 31, married, four children
Bob Mieden, 35 married, two children
Paul Gilford, 32, single
Benny Dinnel, 27, single
Harold Griffis, 37, married, seven children
Dave Johnson, 27, married, two children
Howard Rowe, 25, married, two children
Sergio Calles, 40, married, no children
Cecil Hitchcock, 20, single
Dan Short, 20, single
Allan Boddy, 30, marriage status not given

Source: http://wlfalwaysremember.org/incident-lists/481-rattlesnake-fire.html

More info in my previous post last night "The Man Who Played With Fire" including a death scene image such as you would never see published in this day and age.

Are we more sensitive now and weren't then or are we more namby-pamby-ish now and were less so then or a bit of all of the above? I don't have the answer to that.

Kimmer


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:49 PM, wskrayen@gmail.com [californiadisasters] <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

No, they weren't. The mission had a camp near there, and IIRC the USFS called them for a crew. The victims were from all over the US. The book is very California oriented, there is also the story of a Golden Gate NPS crew, that were almost burned over in the Great Basin, and it involved a survivor of South Canyon Fire. 


William Krayenhagen
Stockton,Ca




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