Utah Firewatch: 3 firefighters lose their lives fighting flames along the Utah-Colorado border

Wildfires turned deadly this weekend with three wildland firefighters losing their lives in a burnover incident along the Utah/Colorado border. Today, we learned the identities of the firefighters, including two women. The firefighters were identified as Emily Barker of Michigan, Nick Hutcherson of Arizona, and Sydney Watson of Alabama. Inside Sources takes just a moment to thank those firefighters for their work and sacrifice, and we send our thoughts and prayers to their families. So how do these kinds of burnover incidents happen, and how are firefighters trained to respond when the situation becomes extremely dire? Brad Washa, retired federal firefighter and current Utah State University assistant professor of Wildland Fire Science, joins the conversation to explain.

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