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Has that ever happened?
by Maximus9000 6y ago
Has that ever happened?
- Rebelgecko 6y agoYes. There was a death last year in South Carolina (Angela Chadwick Hawkins) when a device used for starting fires blew up. According to one article [1] there were 6 deaths from prescribed burns between 1963 and 2013 (and 201 deaths from undesired wildfires). While looking this up,I was also surprised to learn that the #1 cause of death when fighting wildfires is vehicle accidents, and the majority of those are plane crashes [1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4605741/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4605741/