Two pilots dead after helicopter crashes while fighting Utah wildfire

In the mountains of Utah's Fishlake National Forest, two helicopter pilots lost their lives Friday when their Sikorsky Skycrane fell from the sky during active wildfire suppression — a reminder that the battle against fire is waged not only on the ground but in the air, by those whose names we do not yet know. Their crash ignited a second fire that merged with the existing Widemouth 2 blaze, expanding the burn to nearly 174 square miles, as if the land itself absorbed the tragedy into its wound. Investigators are now en route, though the answers they seek will take more than a year to surface,