“We just wanted there to be something comfortable to sit on and contemplate,” Richard said. The bench was crafted in five days out of a 290-year-old oak tree trunk that weighed 8,000 pounds, Richard said, who professionally mills with his company Mountain Home Forest Management. Todd Richard, a volunteer firefighter with the County Fire Department’s Angelus Oaks station, volunteered his time to fashion a bench for the memorial site. “He means a lot to us and he’s a part of our lore now,” Muehlebach said.
Morton’s legacy will now be required learning for all of the scouts, Muehlebach said. The couple has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.Ĭharlie’s Meadow is also the site where mandatory fire drills for scouts take place during each summer camp session, said Muehlebach. The couple at the center of the gender reveal, Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr., 42, and Angelina Renee Jimenez, 29, were charged in July with involuntary manslaughter, three felony counts of recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury, four felony counts of recklessly causing a fire to inhabited structures and 22 misdemeanor counts of recklessly causing a fire to property of another. The El Dorado fire allegedly was sparked by a pyrotechnic device used to generate smoke during a gender-reveal on Sept. “Charles’ sacrifice was unfortunately part of that. “The plan worked and they stopped that fire,” Resnick said. The hotshots had to conduct a “burning operation” in which firefighters use drip torches to create their own controlled fire, to create a fire line to prevent the blaze from crossing Highway 38 to the north and into the Big Bear Mountains, Resnick said. That day in 2020, bad fire-weather conditions enabled the El Dorado fire to overcome the southern ridgeline that Morton called his own, said Zachary Resnick, a crew boss with the Big Bear Hotshots who worked with Morton. “He knew this job to be as dangerous as it was important.”
“(Morton) was proud of his public service and he was proud of protecting this country’s natural resources,” said Mike Rohde, a former scoutmaster and retired fire chief who volunteered on the memorial project.
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