Badge of honor
August 7, 2008 | 3:56
pm
A swath of black tape turns the badge of a U.S. National Park Service ranger into a symbol of mourning as family, friends and colleagues await word of the fate of a pilot and eight firefighters who remain missing after their helicopter crashed. The aircraft, a Sikorsky S-61N returning private contract firefighters from Oregon back to camp after a day's work, went down in a remote area of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Our story is here.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times
