Air Tanker Crashes While Fighting Fire
From Times Wire Reports
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An air tanker crashed while working to control a 1,200-acre wildfire near Rocky Mountain National Park, killing the two people on board, aviation officials said.
The U.S. Forest Service said investigators were on their way to the crash site, about 45 miles northwest of Denver. It didn’t have any other details about the plane or the crash.
A spokesman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, said he believed the plane was operated by Hawkins & Powers Aviation Inc. of Greybull, Wyo.
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