Fire crew member killed in truck crash at SW Oregon forest fire

The death of a 19-year-old water truck driver outside a rural Oregon wildfire came just months after he joined a community college firefighter training program and readied for his first fire season.
Jesse Trader had a baseball scholarship to Western Oregon University but chose to enroll at Chemeketa Community College for its fire protection program instead, his mother said Tuesday.
This is what Jesse wanted to do with his life," said Gigi Trader, of Albany.Jesse Trader was killed when his water truck overturned on a rural road's embankment early Tuesday morning outside the Big Windy complex of fires in southwest Oregon.
He was the sole occupant of the truck.
Trader was returning a truck that was used all of Monday night and into Tuesday morning at the Big Windy complex of fires and was returning to hand off the keys to a replacement driver, Gilbertson said.
He was coming down the hill," Gilbertson said. "(The truck) was heading down to get a relief driver."
Trader's mother said his faith, and hers, helped her cope with the reality of his death just hours after getting a call from law enforcement.
He was always willing to share his faith with others, he never got in any trouble," Gigi Trader said. "He was somebody who was going to be very successful."They took him by air ambulance,” said Trader's uncle, Ed Pentecost. “They tried to revive him, they tried to save him.”
The family got the message around 10:30 Tuesday morning that Jesse had died, Pentecost said. Trader’s parents immediately started out for Grants Pass to claim their son.