Tag: Fire Shelters
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Mesa County burnover tragedy renews focus on fire shelter limits
On Saturday, three federal firefighters died and two were injured in a burnover in the Snyder fire in Mesa County near the Colorado-Utah border while attempting to use shelters. The incident has renewed attention to the history and capabilities of wildland fire shelters — the last-resort equipment all firefighters carry. The need for better protection…
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Fast-moving ‘burnover’ killed 14 firefighters in South Canyon blaze in 1994
The deadly wildland blaze that killed three firefighters and injured two others on Saturday served as a grim reminder that wildfires can change direction and speed with little or no warning, leaving crew members no time to reach an escape route and forcing them to deploy their fire shelters. It is not immediately clear if…