Heli attack 3 full screen6/3/2023 The victim was overrun by fire and later pronounced dead at the scene. Four crew members ran downhill toward the river while the victim and another fire fighter ran uphill toward another crew member standing on the road. ![]() A wind shift caused the fire to make an upslope run into the crew. The crew began constructing an indirect downhill handline from a forest service road in an attempt to establish an anchor point at the river. A Helitack crew responded in a helicopter to a wildland fire in a remote river drainage with slopes ranging from 80 to 120 percent. ![]() On September 12, 2004, a 24-year-old female career fire fighter (the victim) died while conducting an initial attack at a wildland fire. Death in the Line of Duty…A summary of a NIOSH fire fighter fatality investigation
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