Alpine Hotshot Crew - The Dude Fire

Gene Garate

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Published 2008-10-04

This is a brief slideshow segment from newspaper clippings and photos I collected.

All Comments (13)

@mikemartin234 15 years ago

wow, i run the perryville crew from time to time. i have been up to the site recently. i take my crew to the site and the memorial to clean it up. i to know survivors from that fire in fact i know the guy who was there crew boss that day. this is a cool tribute / video to the fallen.
@antlion71 14 years ago

Thanks for leaving the comment. It was a terrible ordeal and good to know that something good came from it.
@rgilbert466 15 years ago

I was on this fire and I personally know the survivor you are talking about. He leads crews here in southern Arizona and teaches NWCG classes
@GADonMc 1 year ago

I was there
@ChrisTopheRaz 13 years ago

Thank you for posting this video. My name is Chris and I was there too. I was on a civic conservation crew at the time, I was only 17 and we were over on Diamond hill working a file line for a planned controlled burn. I remember this day very clearly and while sharpening my chainsaw blades and taking a brief break from work, I watched the lightning bolt that struck near dude ranch and watched the first small plumes of smoke turn into "The Dude Fire."
@antlion71 14 years ago

thats the hope. That others might learn from our mistakes and take precautions we did not.
@antlion71 15 years ago

That is very cool. Did the State ever ante up and at least reimburse the families or anything?
@antlion71 14 years ago

Well it's good to know your still around. I didn't see you at the 20 year reunion, and no one really knew of your whereabouts. I have been in Reno, NV for the past decade and moved to Wichita KS about a year ago. I am with an air ambulance group called EagleMed. We do fixed wing and rotor wing ambulatory transport. No fires here except for structural.
@antlion71 15 years ago

It was quite the experience. What crew did your friend fight fire with?
@antlion71 15 years ago

The three guys on our crew that were given the medals of valor were the ones that carried a severely burned victim from the same crew to safety. I would bet this is the same guy. I will have to look through my articles to find his name. The rest of us cleared out the area for the helicopter to medivac him out. I would love to find out more about him and if this is the same guy.
@antlion71 14 years ago

Moe...is that you? Holy crap it's been a long long time. Lil Opie here. What have you been up to?
@willfields7128 5 years ago

Would have been a great video had it not been for the obnoxious music selection.