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Wildfire makes recovery at Calif. crash site difficult
Fire raging through rugged, dense terrain is complicating rescue crews’ efforts to recover victims and evidence from the remote part of a Northern California forest where a firefighting helicopter crashed. Nine people were presumed dead.
The helicopter was carrying 11 firefighters and two crew members when it went down Tuesday night deep in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest and was destroyed by fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Four people — three firefighters and a pilot — were flown to hospitals with severe burns after other firefighters who were waiting to be picked up helped tend to their injuries, said Jennifer Rabuck, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service. Eight firefighters and a pilot were feared dead.
— Associated Press
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