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Rattlesnake Fire
The Rattlesnake Fire was a wildfire started by an arsonist on July 9, 1953, in Grindstone Canyon on the Mendocino National Forest in northern California. The wildfire killed one Forest Service employee and fourteen volunteer firefighters from the New Tribes Mission, and burned over before it was controlled on July 11, 1953. It became and is to this day a well-known firefighting textbook case.
==Events==
The arsonist, Stan Pattan, started two fires, one on private land and the other along Alder Springs Road inside the national forest boundary. He was later convicted and sentenced on two counts of arson.〔Cermak, Robert W. p. 323〕
The first fire was quickly suppressed by the Forest Service. The second fire continued burning toward Grindstone Canyon. The fire was spotted and reported mid-afternoon; by evening, it was considered under control.
At about 9 pm, though, as detailed in (John Maclean )'s book ''Fire and Ashes'', the wind caused a spot fire north of the road from a burning brand. The plan to bulldoze lines above this fire were not completed as the terrain was too steep for the equipment. Then the wind died down and the spot fire became inactive. With the new weather conditions, a firebreak line was successfully built directly around the inactive spot fire. The wind came up again and changed direction, which started several spot fires west of the crew. All but one of these new fires were extinguished. The men then rested, ate supper, and were in an area out of sight of the fire front, unaware that a flare-up was occurring until too late.〔Cermak, Robert W, pp. 319-321〕
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