Smokey Bear Honors Fallen Firefighters

I want to honor all the fallen wildland (forest) fire fighters.

Hi. I'm Smokey Bear. Contrary to popular belief, my middle name is NOT "the". I've been our national symbol of forest fire prevention for over 50 years now. For years I was just a cartoon before a black bear cub was found on the Capitan Gap Fire, Lincoln National Forest, NM in 1950. After nursing me back to health, I was taken to the national zoo in Washington, DC to become the real live symbol. I became so popular that the US Postal Service gave me my own zip code (20252) in 1964. That real live part of me died at the zoo in 1976 and was transported back home where he was buried in Capitan, NM. My popularity and recognition is almost unsurpassed. According to a survey conducted several years ago, I'm the second most recognized advertising icon, second only to Santa Claus.

I want to honor all the fallen wildland (forest) fire fighters. Scattered all over this great country of ours are museums, monuments and memorials dedicated to these fallen heroes who gave their lives fighting the fires that destroy so much. Below are just a few of these places of honor. Please take me to these and any others that may be out there, take my picture with the place of honor, and place me in a nearby cache so that someone else can carry me on my quest. Also, please e-mail my owner the correct coordinates of each place visited. He's trying to compile a database of all the memorials, monuments & museums and this would help greatly. Coordinates listed below may not be exact but should be close enough to get you where you can find it. If not, my apologies. A list of more memorials and monuments (the published list is growing almost daily) can be found at (visit link) .



** National Fallen Firefighters Memorial N39 41.701 W77 19.545

** National Wildland Firefighters Monument N43 34.1 W116 13.017

** Smokejumpers Memorial N46 55.533 W114 05.4 (approx.)

** Mann Gulch Fire Memorial N46 53.228 W111 53.852 (Coords for the nearby geocache)

** Storm King Mountain Fire Memorial N39 34.57 W107 25.072 (Coords for the nearby geocache)

** Wildland Firefighter's Monument N44 18.1 W120 50.483(approx.)

** ThirtyMile Fire Memorial N48 48.05 W120 02.522 (approx.)

** Firefighter's Circle N47 19.0 W116 35.1

** 1910 Fire Monument S of Wallace, ID, on the road to Moon Pass & Avery

** Fallen Firefighter Memorial N38 34.583 W121 29.45 (approx.)

** Stanza Fire Memorial N41 39.717 W123 17.433

** The Fallen Firefighters Memorial N43 01.327 W108 21.618

** Donald L. Eisberner Memorial N44 44.471 W90 58.838

** Battlement Creek Fire Memorial N39 07.25 W108 31.4(approx.)

** Forest Fire Museum N46 44.167 W117 00.033 (approx.)

** Smokey Bear Historic Park & Smokey's grave N33 32.75 W105 34.5 (approx.)

** JP Pritchett Memorial (a former employee) N32 18.204 W90 10.947

** Romero Fire Memorial N37 47.133 W119 04.15 (approx.)

** MACK II Fire Memorial N33 54.033 W116 51.867

** Inaja Fire Memorial Park N33 05.917 W116 51.862

** El Cariso Memorial Park N34 18.942 W118 24.942

** Pepper Hill Fire Memorial N41 29.233 W78 12.017 (approx.)

** Knight/Schwartz/Stollak Memorial N40 15.917 W105 25.517 (approx.)

** Tanker 130 Memorial N38 31.1 W119 28.85 (approx.)