Raised in Moab. Excelled in sports, even considered professional & teaching golf at one time. Hobbies: motorcycles, bowling and watching movies.
Died drilling a tunnel to rescue six men trapped in the Crandall Canyon Mine, near Huntington, Utah, in Carbon County. He was trying to save friends he had worked with. Brandon was the first of three rescuers discovered from the drilling cave-in. Six additional rescuers were injured. Due to the instability of the area, underground tunneling search efforts were abandoned after the rescue cave-in, but a fifth and a sixth bore hole were drilled to test for air quality and drop video cameras checking for any sign of the original six trapped men more than 1,500 feet below ground, to no avail.
Sources: accessed 21 Aug 2007 www.kutv.com, www.standard.net; accessed 25 Aug 2007 www.azcentral.com; Brandon's Aunt Colene T., fag.com contributor message 16 Aug 2009
John 15:13-15
"Greater love hath no man than this; that he lay down his life for his friends."
Raised in Moab. Excelled in sports, even considered professional & teaching golf at one time. Hobbies: motorcycles, bowling and watching movies.
Died drilling a tunnel to rescue six men trapped in the Crandall Canyon Mine, near Huntington, Utah, in Carbon County. He was trying to save friends he had worked with. Brandon was the first of three rescuers discovered from the drilling cave-in. Six additional rescuers were injured. Due to the instability of the area, underground tunneling search efforts were abandoned after the rescue cave-in, but a fifth and a sixth bore hole were drilled to test for air quality and drop video cameras checking for any sign of the original six trapped men more than 1,500 feet below ground, to no avail.
Sources: accessed 21 Aug 2007 www.kutv.com, www.standard.net; accessed 25 Aug 2007 www.azcentral.com; Brandon's Aunt Colene T., fag.com contributor message 16 Aug 2009
John 15:13-15
"Greater love hath no man than this; that he lay down his life for his friends."
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