air tanker crash
Pilot dies in air tanker crash while fighting new Yosemite Fire
Submitted by paula on Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:21pm
Highway 140 is closed through Yosemite tonight as firefighters are battling a new fire in the National Park. The Dog Fire began on Tuesday afternoon at 2:45 p.m.
Tragedy struck early in this fire when a Cal Fire pilot fighting the fire with an air tanker crashed and died. The family of the pilot has asked that identification be withheld until they could get a hold of all family members.
The tanker that crashed was an S-2T, one of several aircraft that Cal Fire deploys to battle wildfires.
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