Pulaski Firefighting Tool
Pulaski is widely credited for the invention of the Pulaski in 1911, a hand tool commonly used in wildland firefighting. A combination hand tool with a mattock for digging or grubbing on one side and an axe for chopping on the other, it is often called a "Pulaski tool".
Mount Pulaski, a 5480 foot (1670 m) peak 1.5 miles southwest of Wallace, is named for him.
The US Forest Service's Pulaski Tunnel Trail near Wallace, ID, provides access to the Nicholson Mine site where Pulaski and his team took shelter.
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