For former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper Wayne Williams, the best part of reading an Idaho author’s recent book was finding ...

”It’s a tragic story, but it’s also one of a lot of heroism,” Holm told the Idaho Statesman in a phone interview. ... who was flying out to staff the fire lookout at Shissler Peak.

How Idaho plane crash, recovery happened. When the DC-3 took off from Grangeville on June 11, 1979, it carried 10 passengers, two pilots and two dogs.