Incident Name:
Date: 2/26/1984
Personnel: Thomas Ross
Age:
Agency/Organization: Spicewood Volunteer Fire Department, Spicewood TX
Position: firefighter
Summary: On 2/26/1984 a Spicewood firefighter Thomas Ross was truck and killed by a car whose driver apparently couldn’t see him through the thick black smoke on US 281 north of Johnson City.
Maps
Spicewood TX
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US 281 north of Johnson City; general location of the accident
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- Brief record from the NWCG Wildland Fire Fatalities by Year, 1910-2011Texas, Spicewood
1 fatality
- Texas Death Index: Thomas Calvin Ross (the date is too late)
- USFA Memorial Database: Thomas C Ross
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Media Articles and Reports
Photos, Videos, & Tributes
- Thomas Ross is honored on the USFA National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, MD. Look for his name under Texas.
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