A contract wildland firefighter who was killed by a falling tree in California last week has been brought home by a convoy of fellow firefighters.
last week has been brought home by a convoy of fellow firefighters.
The convoy escorted the body of Darin Banks, 26, on a long journey Thursday from Modesto to a mortuary in Red Bluff, where he lived.Banks was struck by a dead tree that unexpectedly fell while assigned to a hand crew preparing an area for a prescribed burn in Tuolumne County on May 6, according to Jess R. Wills, president of Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression Inc.
"He leaves behind his 4-year-old son, mother, siblings, grandparents, and great-grandparents," Wills said in a
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