Firefighter Dies, 1 Hurt as 1,000 Battle California Wildfire
LOS ANGELES— A firefighter among those battling a central California wildfire died Wednesday and another was hurt when the water truck they were in overturned on a highway miles from the fire lines.The accident happened as firefighting crews gained g...
Skid marks lead to the scene of a rollover crash of a water tanker truck near Vandenberg Air Force base that took the life of a Ventura County Fire Dept. firefighter and injured another firefighter Wednesday morning, Sept. 21, 2016, near Lompoc, Calif. The accident happened as firefighting crews gained ground in their effort to contain the wildfire at the base near launch pads used to send satellites into space. The truck crashed before dawn at a roundabout on a two-lane highway just outside Vandenberg, said Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Steve Swindle. Len Wood/The Santa Maria Times via AP
LOS ANGELES—A firefighter among those battling a central California wildfire died Wednesday and another was hurt when the water truck they were in overturned on a highway miles from the fire lines.
The accident happened as firefighting crews gained ground in their effort to contain the 19-square-mile fire on Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The truck crashed just before dawn at a roundabout on Highway 246 about two miles (3.2 kilometers) outside the city of Lompoc, Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Steve Swindle said.
Venture County firefighter Ryan Osler was killed, and Adam Price was injured. There were no other occupants in the truck.
Osler, 38, was a second-generation firefighter whose father worked for the same department. He was married with two children.
In this photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, a fire burns several miles behind Space Launch Complex-3, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif on Sept. 19, 2016. Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP
