Questions linger over deadly fire

For the families of the four wildland firefighters who perished in the Knowles Fire burnover event last June, the just-released results of an investigation provide a ton of information, but few answers to their most pressing questions.The parents of 27-year-old Nick Hutcherson — one of three firefighters who died on the ground — reacted by issuing a press release demanding accountability for “preventable failures of leadership and oversight.”The Department of Interior’s investigation took a “learning review” approach rather than a fault-finding one. It says plainly that it isn’t trying to judge individual decisions, and its central conclusion is that “no single decision or system failure fully explains the outcome.”The report goes into great detail about the series of events that culminated in tragedy.

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