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Pilot, Fire, and Survival in Montana | Spokane News
A plane crash near Silesia, Montana, claimed the lives of pilot Roy Shreck — Spokane’s legendary “Man in the Sky” — and the Loos family, except for their nine-year-old daughter Angie, who survived 26 hours trapped in wreckage. Shreck, once a protégé of aviation pioneer Nick Mamer and co-owner of Mamer-Shreck Air Transport, had weathered past disasters, including a 1939 biplane crash in snowy Coeur d’Alene. Meanwhile, in 1926, wildfires tore through Reardan’s business district, destroying key buildings, while forest fires forced wildlife to flee — deer calmly watching flames near Priest Lake…
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