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LEWISTOWN - Four Bureau of Land Management firefighters based in Lewistown have been honored for their role in rescuing a pilot who had crashed in the path of a Nevada wildfire.

Scott Meneely, Andrea Robinson, Steven Spellberg and Andrew Rishavy accepted their Valor Awards from the Department of the Interior during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

The four were members of a BLM engine crew that was working with two other crews to create a buffer between the Barrel Springs fire and homes in Winnemucca, Nev., on July 17, 2007.

They saw a single engine air tanker that was attempting to make a retardant drop get caught in a cross wind and crash.

While some of the firefighters scrambled to slow the fire's advance, others pulled the pilot - soaked in slurry and jet fuel - to safety.

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