The Brief
- The body of 27-year-old Glendale resident Nick Hutcherson arrived at Deer Valley Airport in north Phoenix on July 2 following his death while battling a wildfire near the Utah-Colorado border.
- Hutcherson was assigned to the U.S. Forest Service Kaibab National Forest and died on June 27 while responding to the Snyder Fire alongside two other firefighters.
- A white hearse received Hutcherson’s body at the airport to transport it to a funeral home by way of a procession.
PHOENIX – The body of Nick Hutcherson, a 27-year-old Glendale man, has arrived back in Arizona Thursday afternoon after he was killed near the Utah-Colorado border while battling a wildfire.
What we know:
Hutcherson was assigned to the U.S. Forest Service Kaibab National Forest and died while responding to the Snyder Fire on June 27. Emily Barker of Clinton Township, Michigan, and Sydney Watson of Warrior, Alabama, were also killed, the U.S Department of the Interior said.…