A single-pilot tanker plane that went missing on Thursday was found Friday and authorities confirmed the pilot is dead.
A single-pilot tanker plane that went missing on Thursday while fighting one of the many wildfires ablaze in Oregon has been found, and the pilot is dead, authorities said Friday.The aircraft was located Friday morning and the death confirmed, according to Lisa Clark, a U.S. Bureau of Land Management information officer, The Associated Press reported.The BLM-contracted plane went missing Thursday evening in eastern Oregon while fighting the Falls Fire, on the edge of the Malheur National Forest.
WildfiresElsewhere, the state has dozens of active fires, with the Durkee Fire as the biggest in the nation, at 288,690 acres as of Friday afternoon. Ignited by a lightning strike on July 17, it has burned swathes of eastern Oregon and is 20 percent contained. The blaze is near the Oregon-Idaho state line, close to Interstate 84. The Oregon Department of Transportation posted on X, formerly Twitter, that the highway reopened on Thursday.Currently in peak fire season, the U.S.
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