In the high desert terrain of central Utah, two lives were lost when a firefighting helicopter fell from the sky while battling a wildfire that has already consumed more than 111,000 acres. The crash near Richfield on Friday morning — and the day-long wait before rescuers could even reach the wreckage — speaks to the brutal arithmetic of wildfire suppression: the same forces that make these fires so dangerous to fight are the ones that make it impossible to stop fighting them. Their deaths arrive as a quiet reminder that behind every containment percentage is a human being standing between the
Firefighting helicopter crashes in Utah wildfire, killing pilot and crew member
Two crew members—a pilot and one additional crew member—were fatally injured when their firefighting helicopter crashed during wildfire suppression operations in Utah.