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The security man and 343 firefighters perished trying to help others.

An estimated 20% of the world’s mature giant sequoias have perished in the last decade due to severe wildfires, according to the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League.

Scott, Bowers and Wilson continued on and made a final camp, but trapped by a freezing blizzard with dwindling supplies, all three perished.

Today participants of different generations including a representative of the survivors offered water in a show of respect to those who perished in nuclear fire.

Many who perished were eventually found among the remnants of their destroyed properties.