Firefighter becomes fourth to die in blaze near Colorado-Utah border as wildfires continue to burn

The Department of the Interior confirmed that a fourth firefighter has died while fighting a fast-moving wildfire near the border of Colorado and Utah in June. Nathan Matthews, 43, of Lincoln, Nebraska, died on Friday according to a department press release. “This is another heartbreaking loss for our wildland fire family,” U.S. Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy said in a statement. Matthews was among a group of firefighters who were caught in a "burnover" on June 27. A burnover occurs when a fire's spread surrounds an area, closing off all routes of escape. He was a member of a Helitack crew, which is a group of firefighters who are dropped into remote areas by helicopter to fight newly formed, quickly spreading fires in hopes of stopping its expansion into a larger blaze, ABC Ne