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A 26-year-old firefighter has died after she was hit by a falling tree while working on a prescribed burn in Idaho

The victim has been identified as Isabella "Bella" Oscarson

Oscarson moved to Idaho in 2025 and worked for the Idaho Department of Lands

A 26-year-old firefighter has died after she was hit by a tree while on duty.

Isabella Oscarson was “assisting with the U.S. Forest Service’s Tinker Bugs prescribed fire in the Nez Perce–Clearwater National Forests” in Idaho when she was hit by the falling tree, the Idaho Department of Lands said in a news release .

The woman, described by the Idaho Department of Lands as “a seasonal employee from Minnesota,” was flown to Grangeville, where she died from her injuries on Friday, Sept. 26.

Oscarson graduated from Watertown

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