Herschel Higgins, an old friend of Arlie Bergman, was working for the Forest Service then and had charge of a crew assigned to get in and fight the fire. The men came up across the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation until there was nothing ahead of them but the old Indian trail leading into Lost Valley. Higgins recalled:

“We had eight bulldozers, and we had an old man from up north and we put him on a D-7, and I said, ‘Take off.’ And he said, ‘Follow the trail?’ And I said, ‘That’s all right with me.” I had charge of them. Boy, they went down with all eight of them and got to the other end, they never stopped. And when we got to the other end there was an Army truck right behind them that drove right down into Lost Valley.”

That first fire road came into Lost Valley near Cathedral Rocks. Now known as the Indian Road, it is only kept open today to provide emergency access in and out of camp.

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