|
Name: Garrett Paiz
Rank: Firefighter/Driver
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Status: Wildland - Contract
Years of Service: Pending
Date of Incident: 10/16/2017
Time of Incident: 0645hrs
Date of Death: 10/16/2017
Fire Department: CAL FIRE
Address: 1416 9th Street POB 944246, Sacramento, CA 94244
Fire Department Chief: Director Ken Pimlott
Incident Description: Firefighter/Driver Garrett Paiz was killed in Napa, California, while operating an empty 1993 Kenworth water tender (tanker) when, according to the California Highway Patrol, the vehicle left the roadway on a curve and crashed through a guardrail down a ravine. Paiz, who died at the scene, was working on the Nuns fire burning in the hills above Oakville and was heading for a water resupply when the crash occurred near the bottom of a steep winding section of roadway called the Oakville Grade. According to initial reports, the roadway was closed for fire operations only at the time of the crash, and no other vehicles were involved. Firefighter/Driver Paiz, a native of the Coachella Valley in Southern California, and a volunteer firefighter with the Noel Fire Department in Missouri, was working as a contract firefighter with CAL FIRE at the time of his passing. The cause of the fatal incident remains under investigation by authorities.
Incident Location: 1631 Oakville Grade, Napa, CA 94558
|
