Firefighter
American, California
Date of Birth Unknown- 5 March 1964
Last week my wife and I visited a firefighters museum with a restaurant, I was expecting a fireman’s pole and a few stools but, it is an upper-class joint which treats their guests as visiting firemen. I was reflecting on the hard work that firemen do, at the museum they showed the efforts the firemen made in containing the terrible Chernobyl disaster. It also reminded me of the movie “only the brave” where they show what kind of hard life it is to be a fireman. For a short time my wife and I stayed at a place with a voluntary firefighting team, we watched them put a fog machine in a building and pull out a dummy and a round of beers shortly followed. No matter how much our technology advances the fires in Cape Town, California, the devastating fire of Notre Dame Cathedral and most recently the fires in Siberia consumer everything as we watch in dismay, yet a few brave souls attempt to fight back.
The area of Eureka was previously inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years and was called Wiyot: the place “where you sit and rest” which is now the ultimate resting place of Adolph Oss.
https://humboldtbayfirefighters.org/about/our-fallen
https://www.cafirefoundation.org/programs/california-firefighters-memorial/fallen/adolph-oss/
Obituary: March 7, 1964, Eureka Humboldt Standard · Page 16