Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Fire Service Remembers Eva Schicke

Flags at Fire Stations throughout Calaveras County were at half mast today and a moment of radio silence was requested in remembrance of fallen firefighter Eva Scicke.

Firefighter I Eva Schicke was killed on September 12, 2004, when her helitack crew was overrun by fire in the Tuolomne River Canyon on the Stanislaus National Forest in California. Shicke, who was 23, had been a seasonal firefighter with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for five seasons.