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The June 2026 Colorado-Utah border entrapment killed 3 wildland firefighters and injured 2 others. Burnover and entrapment — Burnover / Entrapment — is the leading cause of death across the dataset. The U.S. Wildland Fire Service, established in 2026 to consolidate fragmented federal fire authorities, was operational at the time of the incident.