(Salem, OR) -- Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has ordered flags on public buildings to be flown at half-staff on Thursday to honor fallen firefighter Benjamin Sapper. He was a Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest Firefighter and died August 4th in a vehicle crash. He graduated from Boulder High School and the University of Colorado with a degree in Applied Mathematics. He was planning to attend the University of British Columbia for a graduate degree in Earth Sciences.