Three firefighters have died and two others have been injured after a burnover incident while battling fast-moving wildfires along the Colorado-Utah border, as authorities continue to confront the largest active wildfire in the United States.
The US Wildland Fire Service confirmed the deaths on Saturday, saying the five firefighters were part of an interagency response tackling the Knowles and Gore fires. The Department of the Interior said the crew became trapped in a burnover, a dangerous situation in which firefighters are overtaken by flames and are forced to seek shelter while the fire passes over them.
