The firefighter community is mourning following the death of a veteran firefighter battling the Bivens Creek Fire in the Tobacco Roots.
On Sunday afternoon, incident commanders received word of what they call an “incident within an incident.” Amy Hyfield, with the Northern Rockies Incident Management Team 6, said that’s when they learned a firefighter had suffered a cardiac emergency.
“Many of us gathered together with the communications and the medical folk and found out that there was in fact a cardiac emergency that unfortunately resulted in the passing of one of our firefighters out on the line,” Hyfield said…