Two helicopter crew members contracted by the U.S. Forest Service died on 2026-09-21 when their helicopter crashed while fighting the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park. The pilots were performing bucket work (water drops) when the crash occurred; the fire had burned over 3,000 acres.
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The crew members, under contract with the U.S. Forest Service, were in a helicopter that crashed on Sunday while fighting a fire that has burned more than 3,000 acres.
A helicopter assisting in fighting the Dome fire in Yosemite national park crashed on Sunday afternoon Two helicopter pilots died while fighting a fire in Yosemite national park on Sunday afternoon. The pilots were conducting water drops over the Dome fire, which had burned more than 3,000 acres since it ignited last week, when their helicopter crashed around 3pm, according to the Federal Aviation
Two members of a helicopter crew battling the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park were killed in a crash on Sunday, the U.S Forest Service said.
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King was one of two pilots killed while fighting California’s Dome Fire.
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At the time of the crash, the helicopter crew was engaged in “bucket work,” which involves scooping water out of a lake or river to dump on the fire.