Aspinwall

Nearby Mountain View High School identified Aspinwall as its former teacher and coach, saying its "thoughts and prayers" were with his family.

“It doesn’t talk down to them. It doesn’t try to teach them things. They’re learning through the experience and play,” Aspinwall says.

The Aspinwall volunteer firefighter “was one of the kindest people you would ever want to meet,” his sister said.

A few weeks earlier, a steamship carrying blasting oil exploded in Aspinwall, Panama, killing 50 people.

Lyric Li and Nick Aspinwall contributed to this report.