One of the four wildfire fighters killed in a highway crash near Cache Creek last week was from the Tsilhqot’in Nation near Williams Lake.
Jaxon Billyboy-Bowe was 19 and had just graduated highschool in June 2023 from Skyline Alternate School.
A firefighter with Tomahawk Ventures, Jaxon was travelling home in a pickup truck early in the morning on Highway 1 east of Cache Creek when it collided head-on with a semi-truck on Tuesday, Sept.
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