A firefighter from Minnesota died Friday while helping the United States Forest Service with a controlled burn in Idaho, officials say.

The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) says Isabella Oscarson had been struck by a falling tree while assisting the U.S. Forest Service's Tinker Bugs with a prescribed fire in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests. She was evacuated from the scene and flown to a hospital in Grangeville, Idaho, where she later died.

Oscarson was a seasonal employee with the IDL.

"IDL extends its deepest sympathies to Isabella's family and friends. This is a tragedy that hits the employees at Idaho Department of Lands and the broader wildland fire community extremely hard," Dustin Miller, director of IDL, said. "We are heartbroken and doing everything we can to support h

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