Incident Name:
Date: 10/8/1942
Personnel: Joseph Praytel
Age: 30
Agency/Organization: California Department of Forestry (now CALFIRE)
Position: firefighter
Summary: On 10/8/1942, Joseph Praytel was run over at night by a vehicle at a truck fire in the woods near Weed California. He succombed to his injuries.
Maps
near Weed, CA
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- NWCG: Historical Wildland Fire Fatalities 1910-1996 (408 K pdf)
- Date: 1942
- Fire Name / Location: Weed, Siskiyou RU, CA; Nevada County CA
- Number of Fatalities: 1
- Agency: CDF now CAL FIRE
- Fire behavior observed: Unknown, Occurred during nightshift.
- Remarks: Truck fire; Firefighter was run over by a vehicle at a truck fire in woods
- Lessons Learned Database:http://iirdb.wildfirelessons.net/main/Reviews.aspx
Date: 1/1/1942
Location: Weed
State: California
Incident:
Accident: Vehicle Burn
Category: Vehicle
Organization:
Agency: CDF (now CAL FIRE)
Number of People: Not Applicable
Shelters Available: Not Applicable
Shelters Deployed: Not Applicable
Fatalities: 1
Injuries: Not Applicable
- California Death Index: Joseph P PraytelName: Joseph P Pryatel
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 08 Oct 1942
Event Place: Siskiyou, California, United States
Birth Date: 07 Mar 1913
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Gender: Male
Father’s Name: Pryatel
Mother’s Name: Miller
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Wildlandfire.com Links:
Media Articles and Reports
Photos, Videos, & Tributes
- Find a Grave: Joseph P Paytel
- California Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Sacramento; list by year: Joseph Praytel died in 1942 (page 19). (304 K pdf)
Contributors to this article: Mellie
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