Incident Name: grass fire
Date: 11/4/1987
Personnel: Kevin E Prichard
Age: 21
Agency/Organization: Butler County Fire District #8 Douglass, Kansas
Position: firefighter
Summary: Firefighter Kevin Prichard was riding on left front extended bumper of a brush engine and using booster hose on a pasture fire. The truck hit a bump. He was bounced off and run over. He did not survive.
Maps
Butler County Fire District #8 Douglass, KS, about a mile south of town
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HCA Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- Record from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s list of Historical Wildland Firefighter Fatalities 1910-1996
- Date: 1987
- Fire Name/Location: Douglas, KS, Butler Vol FD
- Fatalities: 1
- Agency: PVT.
- Fire Behavior: Grass fire
- Remarks: Fell from extended bumper area of brush vehicle and crushed by wheels.
- Kevin Prichard named as fallen
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