Yosemite wildfire: Air tanker pilot dies in crash

Flags fly at half-mast at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Aviation Management facility at McClellan Air Park in Sacramento to honor air tanker Geoffrey “Craig” Hunt, who died fighting the Dog Rock Fire in Yosemite National Park.  (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

Yosemite National Park Rangers transfer the body of a Cal Fire pilot who was killed in an airplane crash in Yosemite National Park.  (Alfred Golub / Associated Press)

Smoke rises from a plane crash near Chinquapin, Calif. The S-2T air tanker was fighting a wildfire near Yosemite National Park.  (Donald Talend / Associated Press)