Eva Marie Schicke Memorial Highway dedicated

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Eva Marie Schicke Memorial Highway dedicated

Stretch Of Hwy 120 Renamed After Fallen Firefighter

Groveland, CA -- A four mile segment of Hwy 120 has been renamed the “Eva Marie Schicke Memorial Highway.”

A sign has been placed in memory of Schicke, who was killed fighting a fire in the steep Tuolumne River Canyon on September 12, 2004.

The stretch of road is from the Tuolumne-Mariposa County line to the rim of the World Vista Point east of Groveland.

A ceremony was held Friday along Hwy 120 and attended by CAL Fire Chief Del Walters, Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit Chief Mike Noonan, Assemblyman Tom Berryhill and Eva Marie Schicke’s mother Joyce.

24 year old Ca. Dept of Forrestry Firefighter Eca Schicke

CAL FIRE Firefighter I Eva Schicke was killed on September 12, 2004, when her helitack crew was overrun by fire in the Tuolomne River Canyon on the Stanislaus National Forest in California.

Shicke, who was 23, had been a seasonal firefighter with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for five seasons. The other six firefighters with her received minor to moderate injuries in the inciden

The fire where Eva Schicke died was a relatively small one in rugged, forested terrain that had been under high fire alert for the past month.

Birth: Oct. 25, 1980
Turlock
Stanislaus County
California, USA
Death: Sep. 12, 2004
Groveland
Tuolumne County
California, USA

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Sunday, May 10, 2009