One Firefighter dead Three injured in helicopter crash

[five_alarm]

GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB - One young firefighter is dead and three others injured when their helicopter crashed as they took off from a remote area south of Grande Prairie yesterday. Around 6:30 p.m., the foursome was fighting a massive forest fire in the area and reportedly experienced mechanical problems, crashing about 100 metres from the takeoff site of Nose Mountain Tower. A 20-year-old man from Valleyview died as a result of the accident. The three others were taken to hospital. Their ages and names were not available last night.Source: edmontonsun.com (http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2006/07/04/1666970-sun.html)

Helicopter crashes near Grande Prairie: cbc.ca (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2006/07/04/chopper-crash.html)
Alberta helicopter crash kills one, injures three: theglobeandmail.com (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060704.waltaheli0704/BNStory/National/home)

[Snider]

Nose Mountain is part of my old stomping grounds. The take off from the top is fun. One of my pilots and a crew went down near there many years ago now and met the same fate. Bad business, sorry to hear that.

[bestcoast]

Very sad news. Unfortunatley proving once again how dangerous the job of forest firefighting can be.........BC.............

[five_alarm]

GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB - Twenty-year-old Darcy Moses was taking his second trip up in a helicopter - helping in the forest fire effort - when the chopper crashed, killing him. "He loved flying. He'd fly over and see our house and tell us how small we looked and how cool it was," his mom Margaret Fawcett, 42, said through tears yesterday. "I was so proud of him." Moses was one of four people on a Precision Helicopters chopper that had been hired by the province to do "initial attack" on forest fires, said Alberta Sustainable Resource Development spokesman Dave Ealey.Source: edmontonsun.com (http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2006/07/05/1668716-sun.html)