Incident Name: Sullivan Creek Fire, Flathead National Forest
Date: 8/30/1929
Personnel: Lester Rudd/Rude
Age: 25
Agency/Organization: US Forest Service
Position: firefighter
Summary: Lester Rudd/Rude died of a heart attack while working on the Sullivan Creek forest fire in 1929.
(from foresthistory.org, Chapter 27, Flathead Story – Tragedies; spelled Lester’s surname as Rude; news article spelled it as Rudd
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Sullivan Creek, Flathead National Forest, MT
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- Forest History of the Flathead National Forest spelled Lester’s surname as Rude
- Montana Death Index: Lester Rudd
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