Firefighter Dies Doing Support Work on California’s Stagecoach Fire

Medical emergency at the Incident Command Post

 

Stagecoach Fire. (InciWeb photo)

 

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KERN COUNTY, California -A firefighter has died while he was assigned to the Stagecoach Fire, reported by the United States Department of Agriculture.

The firefighter was said to have died due to a medical emergency according to fire and agriculture officials.

23ABC News reports that Pete Hein has been identified as the firefighter who died.

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The Big Pine Volunteer Fire Department later identified Hein as the firefighter who died.

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Medical emergency at the Incident Command Post     Wildland Firefighter KERN COUNTY, California -A firefighter has died while he was assigned to the Stagecoach Fire, reported by the United States Department of Agriculture. The firefighter was said to have died due to a medical emergency according to fire and agriculture officials. Kern County Fire […]

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