On July 22 of 2002, lightning sparked a fire in Stanza Creek south of Happy Camp. The steep drainage made access to the fire difficult, and the fire grew large quickly in the dry fuel and steep country.
Engine 11 from the Lassen National Forest was dispatched as part of a strike team of fire engines to the Stanza Fire on July 25.
On the night of July 28, while doing a routine patrol on a road…



