Pilot Found Dead After Firefighting Tanker Crashes in Oregon

An air tanker that went missing in Oregon while helping to fight wildfires was located on Friday and its pilot was confirmed to have perished, according to authorities. Lisa Clark, a Bureau of Land Management information officer for the Falls Fire, told media outlets that a Grant County Search and Rescue team located the aircraft and pilot on Friday morning in steep terrain where the tanker plane was helping to fight the Falls Fire. The aircraft was a single-engine tanker resembling a crop duster, which the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had contracted to help battle some of the 300,000 acres of wildfires raging in eastern Oregon alone. Dozens more active wildfires are burning across several parts of the United States....