Associated Press
MISSOULA, Mont. — A memorial service is planned Saturday in Missoula for a U.S. Forest Service firefighter who was killed battling a wildfire in Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada.
Justin Beebe died Aug. 13 when he was struck by a tree while fighting a 7-square-mile blaze ignited by lightning Aug. 8 near Wheeler Peak, about 200 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Beebe was a member of the Lolo Hotshots based in Missoula, Montana — one of a number of elite Forest Service crews called for the most dangerous wildfires in the West.
Beebe will be buried in his home state of Vermont.