Firefighter killed, 2 others injured while fighting forest fire

One state forest firefighter was killed and two others were injured Thursday afternoon while fighting the Coal Canyon Fire on U.S. Forest Service land 9 miles north of Edgemont. The three firefighters, all from Hot Springs, were seasonal firefighting employees of the South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression Division. Trampus Haskvitz, 23, died as a result of injuries he suffered when the Type 6 fire engine he was working on was burned over by the blaze. Two other firefighters, Austin Whitney and Kevin Fees, were injured and transported by Life Flight to Rapid City Regional Hospital. Whitney was transferred to a certified burn center in Greeley, Colo. Fees is in stable condition at Rapid City Regional Hospital...more