A procession made its way through Phoenix today for an Arizona helicopter pilot who was killed in a crash while helping fight a wildfire on the Tonto National Forest.
The procession included fire trucks and law enforcement vehicles escorting a white hearse carrying the flag-draped coffin of 37-year-old Bryan Boatman of Glendale. It went from the Pinal County Medical Examiner’s Office in Florence to a funeral chapel in Peoria in metro Phoenix. A memorial service is planned but details weren’t immediately available. Boatman was killed Tuesday when the helicopter he was piloting crashed on a flight to deliver supplies to fire crews deployed in a remote area of rugged terrain in the Tonto National Forest to fight the Bush Fire.
