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Worland, Thermopolis firefighters save a life in California helicopter crash

In September of this year Erich Berryman, a Worland firefighter who has served for 23 years, took a crew of himself, Taylor Horath of Worland and Clemens Abbott of Thermopolis to Redding, California, to fight fires.

They were there on severity levels where there is perilously low number of firefighting personnel to assist with the fires in the area. The California Department of Forestry and Fire P...