Incident Name: small fire off Route 1 near Morrison, TN
Date: 3/18/1981
Personnel: William Harold Shields
Age:
Agency/Organization: Tennessee Division of Forestry
Position: firefighter
Summary: William Harold Shields was a part-time crew member on the Rock Island Fire Tower crew in Warren County, TN. He died of smoke inhalation on a small fire off of Route 1 near Morrison, TN on March 18, 1981.
Maps
Morrison, TN
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- TN DOF: Smoke inhalation; succumbed on the fireline in Warren County, TN
- Note: No Brief anonymous record from the historical NWCG archive [Historical Wildland Firefighter Fatalities 1910 – 1996 (408 K pdf)] Often the records durng these early years were incomplete.
- Information from Find a Grave Index: William Harold ShieldsName: William Harold Shields
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 1981
Event Place: McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee, United States of America
Photograph Included: Yes
Birth Date: 08 Aug 1940
Death Date: 18 Mar 1981
Affiliate Record Identifier: 27294192
Cemetery: Shellsford Cemetery
Wildlandfire.com Links:
Media Articles and Reports
Photos, Videos, & Tributes
- Tennessee Fallen Firefighters Memorial: William Harold Shields
- Find a Grave Headstone: William Harold Shields
- USFA Memorial Database: William H Shields
Contributors to this article: David Fiorella
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