Fish and Game Warden

Department of Fish and Wildlife

3/1/1970

Special Act Award (Gold)

In March 1970, Fish and Game Warden Ernest Farmer and his supervisor Lt. Fred Kemp, stopped to assist at the scene of a fiery two car crash on the Napa River Bridge outside Vallejo. As Lt. Kemp went to call authorities, Warden Farmer discovered a critically injured nineteen year old woman trapped in the overturned and flame-engulfed car. Moments after Warden Farmer and a truck driver, who stopped to assist, pulled the woman out of the car, it exploded. The woman survived.