RIVERTON — A Wyoming State Forestry Division supervisor, 62-year-old Ted Drake of Newcastle, became the 50th person to be enshrined at the Wyoming Firefighters Memorial in Riverton on Saturday. “Fire Crew Supervisor Drake, a career employee of Wyoming State Forestry, supervised and trained inmates called “Smoke Busters,” well-respected teams utilized to fight wildland fires and complete many other associated projects on both federal and state lands,” according to the U.S. Fire Administration’s report of his death. He suffered a heart attack while undergoing a red-card qualification training exercise on May 14, 2014.
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