Dariel Vasquez will always be remembered as a hero. The 18-year-old New York State forest ranger, who had just graduated from high school, lost his life while attempting to assist in putting out the five thousand-acre Jennings Creek fire at Greenwood Lake.

Dariel was killed Saturday by a falling tree while he was out working the fire in the Sterling Forest located in Greenwood Lake, New York. "Overall good kid, one of the hardest workers," Chris Landry, Ramapo High School baseball coach, said.