A 21-year-old firefighter from Boulder died in a crash while on duty in Oregon. Benjamin Charles Sapper was battling the Flat fire and working as a first-year hand-crew member with the Gold Beach Ranger District. The loss is described as devastating by Gold Beach District Ranger Kailey Guerrant.
Benjamin Charles Sapper was working as a first-year hand-crew member with the Gold Beach Ranger District in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, according to a“This is a devastating loss of one of our own Gold Beach firefighters,” Gold Beach
District Ranger Kailey Guerrant said in the news release. “We have a tight-knit community on the Gold Beach and Powers Ranger Districts, and we stand together in grief and support for his family, friends, and fellow firefighters during this heartbreaking time.”
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