Dude Fire Fatality Case Study

Case study of the 1990 Dude fatality fire in Arizona.

[@nelsroanhorse2897]

I was Crew Rep for the Navajo Scouts at the 1990 Dude Fire.

[@michaelmurphy6887]

Nels Roanhorse you guys saw and predicted exactly what was gonna happen and happening. I’m glad your crew made it out alive

[@corettaha7855]

Nels Roanhorse god bless!

[@rolandbahe8912]

I too was on the Navajo 2 team at the Dude fire. Was my last fire.

[@natrose4721]

Bless your beautiful heart.

[@anngardner6408]

One of the fatalities was a cousin of mine I had been searching for for many years. I only learned of this fire and his death recently. James Edward Ellis was the one. It’s heartbreaking to hear all these accounts.

[@darkslider802]

Why did it take you years to.find out ?

[@cannonball9478]

V sorry for the loss of your family member

[@corettaha7855]

Stay inside your shelter folks

[@jenniferredus3391]

Wow. horrific. What the firefighting community goes though is so unspeakably intense

[@antlion71]

I was a crew member of Alpine IHC.

[@Jack-oz4bf]

Native Americans espically Navajo can run so fast ask anyone in the military who's served with a Navajo they are always at the front of the pack literally lapping us lol.

[@greatestever184]

Ayo hol up. They sent prisoners in as hotshots? Did I hear that right?

[@chrispierce2942]

No they were sent in as a type 2 crew

[@anderslangoks3813]

Prison crews are not unusual.

[@jacksonfitzsimmons4253]

Inmate firefighters are normal but they aren't hotshots

[@michaelmurphy6887]

One of the first crown fires the untied states had seen if not the first

[@REMIREZZ]

Michael Murphy What?

[@darkslider802]

That's a lie haha