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Seventy Years Could Not Erase the Memory of a Wildfire Hero

October 28, 2015 Robert Westover, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

It’s been a busy few months for the Triple Nickles, the U.S. Forest Service’s first African-American smoke jumping crew. On Aug. 6 of this year a member of the crew who was the first recorded death of a hot shot wildland firefighter was posthumously honored at his gravesite that was recently found...

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