Incident Name: the Owens fire, 10 mi weat of Elk River, ID; near Bovill, ID
Date: 8/19/1931
Personnel: Sigurd Sundby
Age: 50
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Position: firefighter
Summary: On August 19, 1931 a burning tree crashed down on Sigurd Sundby, 50, who was fighting his first fire near Bovill, ID. He did not survive.
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Bovill, ID
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- Sigurd Sundby named as fallen:
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