Firefighters in Australia and the Western United States mourn the deaths of three Americans who died battling Australian wildfires.
Three U.S. crew members who died in an air tanker crash in Australia amid the country’s bush fires were flying a California-based aircraft, according to a statement from the office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“The wildland firefighting community is a family and when there is a loss it is felt throughout the entire organization,” it began. “We extend our deepest sympathy to the families of the fallen.”“It was heartbreaking information,” said Susan Garner, a spokeswoman for the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, which straddles the border between California and Oregon. “Now, we’re all concerned because we’re a tight community and know each other pretty well.
Spokeswoman Robyn Baldwin of Coulson, with headquarters in the Canadian province of British Columbia and extensive U.S. operations, declined to identify the crew members or say what U.S. states they were from.On Friday morning in Australia, what was supposed to be a gracious farewell for some American and Canadian firefighting crews instead became a more somber occasion punctuated with a moment of silence for those killed.
The crew members were flying a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker over the Monaro region of the Snowy Mountains when authorities lost contact with the aircraft and crews on the ground reported a possible crash and fireball. It crashed in rugged terrain that was difficult to reach.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the national air crash investigator, and state police will investigate the crash site, which firefighters described as an active fire site.
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