- Memorial Date
- August 19, 2015
- First Name
- Andrew
- Middle Initial
- Last Name
- Zajac
- Organization
- US Forest Service
- Rank
- Firefighter
- Obituary
WFF Zajac was one of the three Wildland Firefighters that died on August 19, 2015 in the Twisp River Fire. “Andrew loved nature, pursuing both a bachelor of science in biology from Case Western Reserve in 2010 and a master of science in biology from the University of South Dakota in 2014. This was Andrew’s second year as a firefighter for the US Forest Service, serving in 2014 in Mimbres, New Mexico and starting in April 2015 in Winthrop, Washington” He and his wife Jenn were just recently married.