Indians Fire Entrapment

Indians Fire Entrapment - National Interagency Fire Center - - Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center. Surviving a Rotating Vertical Plume. What Can YOU Learn From THEIR Experience? Firefighters - Remember This.

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[orest227]

the way, this is narrated..., is annoying.

[timdawdy1]

Paul Gleason contributed a lot to Firefighter Safety and survival. He was the unsung hero of the Dude Fire.

[smokey1255]

Eventually he became FMO for the Rocky Mountain Region of the NPS and taught wildfire at Colorado State University. He was also a regional fire management and fire safety trainer. He died fairly young of cancer. You may want to google him to find out more about him.

[smokey1255]

During this time, he and his crew were on the Dude Fire near Payson, AZ. A blow up on that fire killed several members of an inmate crew. Paul not only witness this but ran into the fire to pull out some of the crewmen. After this fire, Paul developed LCES.

[smokey1255]

That person you remember could have been Paul. Paul began his wildfire career in 1964 as a crewman on the ANF Dalton Hotshots. When I joined the crew in 1966, he was a third year crewman.  Our last fire of the year, the Loop Fire, began on November 1, 1966. That fire killed 12 El Cariso Hotshots who were working the same sector of line. Paul became Superintendent of the Zig Zag Hotshots on the Mt. Hood NF.

[CHRIS BELKNAP]

Why does the name paul gleason sound so familiar to me? I had some training in chimayo, nm years back. I want to think he was there. I may be wrong. I remember a guy talking to us about the man gulch fire (tall caucasion, older man). please let me know. For years I have been trying to figure out who that guy was that talked to us out there in nm. He had so much passion when it came to fire and firefighter safety. He so much emphasized safety as YOU. :)

[smokey1255]

I am reminded of the first time I encountered this situation. In fact, I have a photo I took of one being born on my desk. I had not seen one before but I didn't like it and hurried my squad to a safety zone. I also informed the Super, Chuck Hartley and the Pusher, Paul Gleason. Chuck pulled us out of the area entirely. All we could was watch that Devil burn across two ridges. I learned a lot and had the best mentors a 20 year old hot shot could hope to have. Canyon Fire 1968.

[timbob275]

funny.... a certain hotshot crew from the Salt Lake area wouldn't stop putting fire on the ground with a rotating column and an impending shift in the wind while we were in Texas this year...nearly had the same result... weird. "I'm a tough little hotshot, I'm a tough little hotshot"