20-year old woman killed on Idaho Fire.

[Phorester]

A 20 year old female firefighter was killed by a falling tree while working on the fireline in Idaho.
Thsi is a dangerous business.

http://www.kxlh.com/news/firefighter-dies-battling-wildfire-in-idaho/

[Texas Ranger]

My heart goes out to the fire warriors families.  A tough job, tougher than most, any fire fighter has to be as tough as they come.

[Magicman]

How dreadful. 

[thecfarm]

I thought at first fire got her,but than I saw it was a tree. Talk about the wrong place at the wrong time. That is too bad.

[Ron Scott]

Very sad.

[Draco]

Still safer on the ground than in the air:

"Of the 58 U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighter fatalities between 2002 and 2011, 8 (14%) were Large Airtanker accidents; 22 (38%) were helicopter accidents; 10 (17%) were burnovers; 11 (19%) were driving accidents; 2 (3.5%) were heart attacks; 2 (3.5%) were hazard tree incidents; and 3 (5%) were from other causes such as fall from vehicle, fall from structure, or struck by vehicle."