Two LODD (Apparatus MVA) - Major CA Wildfire

[Guest]

RIP

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"The two firefighters died after their vehicle was overrun by fast-moving flames and rolled down a mountainside in Mount Gleason near Acton."

I'm sure we'll get the chance to read the bios and about the families left behind; but what a terrible tragedy. To be "overrun" by flames while trying to get away in a rig........heartbreaking and horrifying.

You gave it all to help your fellow man. Now you join the Worcester brothers, and the 9-11 brothers, and everyone else in the ultimate Hall of Heroes, where you are all very close to God now.

~Rest in Peace, we won't forget you......

[DOC22 1]

May they rest in Eternal Peace and may God grant their families, friends and the California Emergency Services Community the strength to get through this trsgedy.

[MFVFD179 0]

RIP

[Guest]

RIP

[rfd63l12 2]

god bless

[tdc202 0]

RIP What a terrible tragedy

[Guest Yankee medic]

My thaughts and prayers go out to the families, and the brothers and sisters of the CDF. RIP. And god speed

[RescueKujo 130]

From Firehouse.com

As the roaring wall of flame raged through the Angeles National Forest, firefighters Ted Hall and Arnie Quinones worked feverishly to protect their fire-crew camp, made up mostly of prison inmates.

But all too suddenly, the fire invaded the campsite. Hall and Quinones shepherded 55 inmates and several corrections and fire personnel into a cinderblock dining hall to shelter them from the blaze.

The fire burned through the camp, leaving it in ruins. The dining hall provided adequate shelter for now, but Hall and Quinones knew they had to get everyone to safety. So they jumped in an engine truck and left to search for an escape route down Mount Gleason.

It proved a fatal move.

Smoke blanketed a winding road that is perilous in the best of conditions. The truck careened off the blacktop, tumbling as it plunged 800 feet down the steep mountainside. The vehicle crashed upside down, killing the two men.

The fire they had tried to outrun quickly caught up to them and left the truck a scorched hulk - a reminder that death lives in the shadows of firefighting.

FireHouse.com Story

Take up Ted and Arnie, you saved your crew. You will be remembered as Heroes, and will be missed by many. Rest In Peace.

[20y2 43]

Jesus Christ. Godspeed.