(Powers, OR) -- A 21-year-old firefighter from Gold Beach is dead following an accident while on duty last Friday. Benjamin Sapper was originally from Boulder, Colorado and was working as a hand crew member in the Gold Beach Ranger District. He was killed in a vehicle accident. Sapper graduated from Boulder High School and the University of Colorado with a degree in Applied Mathematics. He was going to be starting graduate school this fall at the University of British Columbia in Earth Sciences.