The Larimer County Sheriff’s office ordered the aircraft, using a “verbal contract” agreed to a month before.
Continue readingNight-flying air tanker crashes while working on wildfire in Colorado
The pilot was killed
Continue readingAir tanker crashes Tuesday night at Kruger Rock Fire
The Single Engine Air Tanker was equipped for night-flying
Continue readingUS Fire Administration releases information about line of duty death of Allen Johnson
Died the same day he was admitted to a hospital
Continue readingFirefighter killed while fighting fire in a cornfield
East of Denver, Colorado
Continue readingMore details emerge about death of Marcus Pacheco who was assigned on the Dixie Fire
He contracted COVID-19 on the Dixie Fire, tested positive there, and died three days later
Continue readingFirefighter/paramedic dies of COVID and fungal infection
Assigned to the McCash Fire in Northern California
Continue readingPerson responsible for helicopter crash that killed 9 firefighters gets early release from prison
Steven Metheny served less than half of his sentence
Continue readingSteven Metheny, responsible for helicopter crash that killed 9 firefighters, released early from prison
The crash occurred on the Iron 44 Fire on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest near Weaverville, California in 2008
Continue readingTwo water tender operators on the Dixie Fire died of COVID-19
Jose T. Calderon and Cessar Saenz, both of San Diego County
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