Incident Name: Rum Creek
Date: 08/18/2022
Personnel: Logan Taylor
Age: 25
Agency/Organization: Oregon Department of Forestry
Position: Contract Firefighter
Summary:
State officials identified the wildland firefighter killed Thursday as 25-year-old Logan Taylor of Talent.
Taylor was critically injured after being struck by a tree on the Rum Creek Fire, located north of Galice and above the Rogue River in southwest Oregon.
Taylor is the second wildland firefighter killed this month and the fourth in Oregon since 2020.
Rescue teams deployed a helicopter and personnel to the fire and airlifted Taylor to Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford, where Taylor succumbed to his injuries, according to a news release from the Oregon Department of Forestry.
“We are extremely saddened by the passing of Logan Taylor,” Tyler McCarty, ODF southwest Oregon district forester, said. “This loss is deeply felt by our ODF family and throughout the wildland fire community as a whole. ODF and our partners are committed to learning from this accident and to doing everything we can to reduce the risk of similar incidents occurring in the future.”
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