Deputy Larson, 34, drowned while attempting to rescue a group of hikers at Sespe Creek.

Chico was stranded in a stalled rescue tractor in the middle of Sespe Creek. He was washed off the top of the tractor with 10 other victims.

There was one survivor.

Two days earlier, Chico saved a party of 12 school girls and 2 adults. He was stationed at Lockwood Valley.

San Francisco Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement On August 21, 1968, Agent Guerard sustained a head injury during the service of a search warrant in Marin County. Gerald died on October 23, 1968 as of a result of that injury.

On September 28, 1968, at 0021 hours, Deputy Harold Hurst was traveling northbound on Fowler Avenue in a marked patrol vehicle.  As he arrived at the uncontrolled Southern Pacific Railroad tracks in the 1000 block of South Fowler, his vehicle collided with a westbound freight train.  Deputy Hurst was thrown from his patrol car and suffered a skull fracture and other injuries.  He was transported to Fresno County General Hospital for treatment, but he developed pneumonia and died on October 2nd.

Before serving with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department, Deputy Hurst had spent three years as a Deputy Sheriff with the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department.  He was also a U.S. Army veteran.

Deputy Hurst, a Stockton native, was survived by his wife, Janet, and two daughters from a prior marriage.  A funeral mass was said at St. George’s Catholic Church, Stockton, and he was buried at High View Memorial Gardens, Farmington.

Deputy McCullah was assigned to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Norwalk Station at the time of his death. Deputy McCullah was an Observer in an on-duty helicopter with pilot Robert Kenneth Schnur. Deputy Schnur, who was assigned to the Department’s Aero Bureau, was flying low over the Whittier Hills when the helicopter hit some abandoned telephone wires strung across a canyon and crashed. The craft was not reported missing until Deputy Schnur’s wife called the next morning. A search was launched and the wreckage discovered at 7:30 a.m. Autopsies revealed both men died on impact. Deputy Schnur left a wife and three children; Deputy McCullah was set to marry that weekend.

Deputy McCullah was assigned to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Norwalk Station at the time of his death. Deputy McCullah was an Observer in an on-duty helicopter with pilot Robert Kenneth Schnur. Deputy Schnur, who was assigned to the Department’s Aero Bureau, was flying low over the Whittier Hills when the helicopter hit some abandoned telephone wires strung across a canyon and crashed. The craft was not reported missing until Deputy Schnur’s wife called the next morning. A search was launched and the wreckage discovered at 7:30 a.m. Autopsies revealed both men died on impact. Deputy Schnur left a wife and three children; Deputy McCullah was set to marry that weekend.