Forest Service Worker Admits Setting Fatal Fire

Posted on October 14, 2009 by lmharnisch
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This is how we did fire maps 50 years ago. The map is hard to read, but compare it with the one we did for the Station fire.


 
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Oct. 14, 1959: The Times brings out an extra on the forest fire.

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June 24, 1960, William Douglas Grater is sentenced in the fire.

Oct. 14, 1959: A fire that started along Angeles Crest Highway near Dark Canyon threatens homes in what is now the La Canada Flintridge area. William Douglas Grater Jr., a 20-year-old Forest Service employee, confessed to setting the fire, which killed two Zuni Indian firefighters and burned 14,000 acres. He was sentenced to a year in jail and seven years’ probation.

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1 Response to Forest Service Worker Admits Setting Fatal Fire

  1. Barry O'Brien's avatar Barry O'Brien says:
    October 14, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    Where’s the tilde for “Canada”??

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