While searching a well known newspaper archive for additions and updates to Fallen Forest Service Employees and Fire Aviation Contractors, a Memorial website maintained by the San Bernardino National Forest, I came across the following news article from 1911:

Monday, August 7, 1911

100 Firefighters Hurt; Forest Fires Rage

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Men Accused of Starting Fires to Hold Jobs — Shoes Burned From Their Feet

San Bernardino, Cal., Aug. 7. – An unidentified fire fighter, fatally burned, was found by a patrol lying where he had fallen exhausted on the San Bernardino mountain fire lines. As the government refuses to allow claims for expenses in caring for injured fire fighters, a collection was taken up to pay for the dying man’s medical aid.

Shoes Burned; Clothes in Rags –

At least 100 sick and disabled fire fighters, with their shoes burned from their feet and their clothes in rags, are stranded here. Forest fires are raging in City Creek canyon, twenty miles east of here. Another fire is eating its way down the eastern slope of the San Bernardino mountains. Forest Supervisor Charlton said that within forty-eight hours his men would have both fires practically extinguished. He also declared that many fires, once out, had been relighted and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property destroyed, by deliberate incendiarism of men, who hired as fire fighters, started new blazes to continue their positions at 25 cents an hour. He is seeking definite evidence.

Associated Press – August 7, 1911