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- Don started firefighting in 1984 on the Bitterroot National Forest and became a hotshot and then a Missoula smokejumper. He left behind a wife and two children. On a website dedicated to those lost, it’s said that Don died doing what he did best — fighting fires.
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Nov 19, 2017 · Don Mackay, one of Fleet Street's great characters, has died. The legendary Daily Mirror reporter was involved in some of the biggest stories in British journalism history.
Jul 6, 2019 · One of the firefighters killed that day was Hamilton’s Don Mackey. It will be a low-key event meant just for family and friends to honor the 14 firefighters killed in Colorado, 25 years ago Saturday on Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
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Don started firefighting in 1984 on the Bitterroot National Forest and was a hotshot in 1985 and 1986. He became a Missoula smokejumper in 1987 and after jumping for eight years, received a career appointment.
Don was born on May 23, 1960, in Sacramento, California. He married on December 24, 1987. He had three children during his marriage. He died on July 6, 1994, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, at the age of 34 in the Storm King Mt. Fire. He jumped at Missoula 1987-94.
Jun 27, 2005 · A firefighter named Don Mackey made several of the big decisions--some good, too many of them bad, at least one of them heroic. Mackey was a product--you might even say a victim--of a system...
Jul 3, 2014 · As the 20th anniversary approached, Gary McCaleb, a firefighter who knew Don Mackey, one of those killed, visited the site for the first time and reported on social media that "it was a deep,...
The 1996 film Smoke Jumpers is loosely based on Don Mackey's life. Mackey was a smokejumper and one of the 14 fatalities of the 1994 South Canyon fire. In the movie, he pursues job-related accolades while his marriage disintegrates. [19]
