Wyoming smokejumper critically injured in New Mexico
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Officials in Montana have released the name of a wildland firefighter who was critically injured while fighting a fire on private land in southwestern New Mexico, near the U.S. Mexico border.
Tim Hart of Cody, Wyoming, was injured Monday following a hard landing after parachuting into rocky terrain in the Animas Mountains, said Marna Daley, a spokesperson for the Custer Gallatin National Forest in Montana.
“The Forest Service’s first priority is to provide for him and his family right now,” Daley told The Billings Gazette.