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What Wildfire Has Resulted in the Greatest Loss of Firefighters?
With the recent and terrible loss of life among the Granite Mountain hotshot crew in Yarnell, Arizona, I can't stop thinking about another very deadly wildfire just over a hundred years ago that killed over a hundred firefighters. I'm referring to the event that was chronicled so well by Timothy Egan in "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America." It's sad that with as much as equipment, training and skills have improved since 1910, that there should still be such loss of life.
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- CecilLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
The Griffith Park fire of 1933 saw about 27 die during the fire and another 2 die in hospital. I think that these men were not employed firefighters but road workers fighting the fire. In 1910 28 men of "the lost crew" died at Setzer Creek Idaho.
- TuggerJLv 68 years ago
This fire at Yarnell with the loss of the Granite Mountain team is the worst loss of firefighters lives in a wildfire in the US
1994, South Canyon Fire in Colorado was 14 firefighters lost.
Then you have to go all the way back to Mann Gulch in Montana in 1949 and the loss of 13 firefighters, 12 of which were Smokejumpers.
- Anonymous8 years ago
the 1933 griffin park fire in LA killed 29 firefighters .
