Iditarod changes dropped dog transport standards following Friday death

Update | 12:37 p.m. Monday
The Iditarod Trail Committee said it’s changing protocols for how it transports dropped sled dogs after an one died Friday while in the organization’s care.
An early necropsy on the dog showed it had overheated, dying of hyperthermia while on board a plane.
Scott Smith is lighting a crumpled pile of straw to get a fire going in his cooker.
His team is spread out on straw in the warm sunshine as he talks about Smoke, the young dog that died.
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