Incident Name: a fire on the Boise National Forest, ID
Date: 7/19/1940
Personnel: Joseph Galluzzo
Age: 39
Agency/Organization: Civilian Conservation Corps, Boise National Forest
Position: CCC enrollee firefighter
Summary: On July 19, 1940, Joseph Galluzzo, CCC, was entrapped and died in a fire on the Boise National Forest.
Maps
nearest town to accident location
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- Lessons Learned Center: CCC Entrapment, 1 fatalityDate: 7/19/1940
Location: Boise
State: Idaho
Incident:
Accident: Entrapment
Category: Fire
Organization: Federal
Agency: CCC
Number of People: Not Applicable
Shelters Available: Not Applicable
Shelters Deployed: Not Applicable
Fatalities: 1
Injuries: Not Applicable
- Forest Service Heroes Memorial: Joseph Galluzzo – Boise National Forest
Wildlandfire.com Links:
Media Articles and Reports
- Description of lightning-caused fires burning across the Northern Rockies and Intermountain Regions at the time of Joseph Galluzzo’s death and that the CCC “boys” were fighting them:
Photos, Videos, & Tributes
- WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Joseph Guiffrie Galluzzo
- Buried in Oakland, CA in the Northwest section of Evergreen Cemetary blk-lot-spc = 22-2/8
Contributors to this article: John Miller
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