https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/08/mckinney-fire-very-respected-decades-long-forest-service-fire-lookout-among-four-people-killed/

A longtime U.S. Forest Service fire lookout — who spent decades scanning the Klamath National Forest for puffs of smoke and the next threat to communities near the California-Oregon line — died when she ignored advice to flee the McKinney Fire and the blaze overtook her home, the federal agency announced Monday.

Kathy Shoopman, 73, died at her Klamath River home during the blaze, which exploded in late July into the state’s largest conflagration of 2022 while decimating the community of Klamath River. The Forest Service said she was among the four people who died in the fire; the names of the other three have not been released, pending positive identification and notification of their next of kin by authorities.