Incident Name: Coffee Mill Fire, Mariposa Ranger Unit, CA
Date: 9/1/1931
Personnel: 3 lives lost
Age:
Agency/Organization: California Department of Forestry (now CAL FIRE)
Position: firefighter
Summary:
Arlin J Love, 29
Frank Lovinguth
Bill Wally
On September 1, 1931, while fighting the Coffee Mill Fire, firefighters Arlin Love, Frank Lovinguth, and Bill Wally were caught or trapped by the fire and burned over. They did not survive.
(If anyone has more details — their ages, handcrew or engine, the fire behavior, the approximate location or topography, any news articles — please let us know.)
Maps
Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- CAL FIRE Memorials & Honorees: Arlen Love | Frank Lovinguth | Bill Wally
- California Firefighters Memorial in Sacramento: Arlen Love | Frank Lovinguth | Bill Wally
- US Census, 1930: Arlin J Love
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Wildlandfire.com Links:
Media Articles and Reports
Photos, Videos, & Tributes
- California Memorial Firefighter Wall in Sacramento, CA: California Memorial LODDs by Wall Order. (84 K pdf) –see page 5
- 2005 State of California Resolution to honor CDF for the hundred years of in protecting California’s natural resources. The Coffee Mill fire is named as the first fire in which CDF firefighters died. (pdf file)
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