Cal Fire releases report on Thomas Fire Fatality

  • Source: Wildfire Today
  • Published: 01/09/2018 12:00 AM

CAL FIRE has released a “Green Sheet” preliminary report for the line of duty death of CAL FIRE Fire Apparatus Engineer Cory Iverson of the CAL FIRE San Diego/San Diego County Fire Authority. Engineer Iverson was overrun by fire and killed December 14, 2017 while battling the Thomas Fire in Ventura County north of Fillmore, California. While working with a hose lay along a dozer line he was attempting to suppress a spot fire across the fireline. As one spot fire became multiple spot fires he attempted to escape but was not successful. The entire 2.6MB report is here.The portion of the document that describes the entrapment is below. Fire Apparatus Engineer Iverson is “FAE1” in the report.



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