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Procession to Transport Firefighter’s Body to Airport

Hotshot Brent Witham of Mentone, California, died on Aug. 2 when he was struck by a falling tree

By Associated Press

MISSOULA — The body of a 29-year-old California firefighter who died in western Montana last week will be transported to the Missoula airport in a procession Monday morning.

Hotshot Brent Witham of Mentone, California, died on Aug. 2 when he was struck by a falling tree while fighting the Lolo Peak fire in the Lolo National Forest.

The procession begins at the Garden City Funeral Home at 9 a.m. Monday. The public is asked to line Broadway between the funeral home and the Reserve Street overpass by 8:30 a.m.

Memorial services will be held in California.

His was the second firefighter death in Montana in less than two weeks. Trenton Johnson of Missoula died on July 19 when a dead tree fell and hit him near Seeley Lake. He was 19.